Automobile & other motor vehicle merchant wholesalers except Tires · Iowa

Parts Authority IA - Waterloo

Waterloo, IA · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Parts Authority IA - Waterloo runs at 363% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Automobile & other motor vehicle merchant wholesalers except Tires workplace, earning a grade F.

Parts Authority IA - Waterloo: 8.0 TCR = 363% of Automobile & other motor vehicle merchant wholesalers except Tires BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Parts Authority IA - Waterloo safety composite

Parts Authority IA - Waterloo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Parts Authority IA - Waterloo: 0.0 → 16.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 16.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2023

Parts Authority IA - Waterloo's TCR rose 16.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 16.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423120 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 363% of ind

  • DART 16.0 DART
  • RANK #10/11
  • PHOTO Fisher Auto Parts - …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fisher Auto Parts - RIWHSE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Parts Authority IA - Waterloo in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Parts Authority IA - Waterloo averages 8.0 TCR (363% of the Automobile & other motor vehicle merchant wholesalers except Tires BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Parts Authority IA - Waterloo TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=16 · BLS 2.2

Where Parts Authority IA - Waterloo falls in its industry

950 Automobile & other motor vehic establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 11 Automobile & other motor vehic employers in Iowa.

Parts Authority IA - Waterloo (20 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.7 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Parts Authority IA - Waterloo
Parts Authority IA - Waterloo (20 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Parts Authority IA - Waterloo has fewer employees than the Automobile & other motor vehicle merchan median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 16.0 16.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423120 · IA · Waterloo

950 Automobile & other motor vehicle merchant wholesalers except Tires employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 172 employers in Waterloo, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Fisher Auto Parts - RIWHSE 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1840 Foster Auto Parts Salem 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kentuckiana's Premier Truck Center-Indiana 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR IBS Simi Valley 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Skyline Pork, LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE J-Six Farms Iowa 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Handlos Jacksonville 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newell Pig II 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Hawk County Extension 4,790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waterloo Pork Plant 2,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR UnityPoint 2,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR JD Waterloo Tractor and Cab Assembly Operations 1,605 FTE
NAT-TCR UMCasaBlanca954 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hotel RL Brooklyn 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pasatiempo Inc. 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR F&S Corporation dba Nevada Linen Supply 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fast Anaheim 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Suzma Corporation 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Donald Feed Mill 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burrel Commodities 20 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.