Electrical, electrical wiring, and low voltage electrical work · Iowa

Paulson Electric Co. of Waterloo

Waterloo, IA · ~23 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Paulson Electric Co. of Waterloo runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Electrical, electrical wiring, and low voltage electrical work workplace, earning a grade C.

Paulson Electric Co. of Waterloo: 3.3 TCR = 116% of Electrical, electrical wiring, and low voltage electrical work BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paulson Electric Co. of Waterloo safety composite

Paulson Electric Co. of Waterloo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Paulson Electric Co. of Waterloo: 0.0 → 11.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.69× in 2024

Paulson Electric Co. of Waterloo's TCR rose 11.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 11.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 116% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #39/61
  • PHOTO Jeremie Snyder Elect…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jeremie Snyder Electrical Contracting, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Paulson Electric Co. of Waterloo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paulson Electric Co. of Waterloo averages 3.3 TCR (116% of the Electrical, electrical wiring, and low voltage electrical work BLS benchmark).

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

Paulson Electric Co. of Waterloo TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=5.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=11 · BLS 2.8

Where Paulson Electric Co. of Waterloo falls in its industry

4,550 Electrical, electrical wiring, establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 61 Electrical, electrical wiring, employers in Iowa.

Paulson Electric Co. of Waterloo (23 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Paulson Electric Co. of Waterloo
Paulson Electric Co. of Waterloo (23 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Paulson Electric Co. of Waterloo has fewer employees than the Electrical, electrical wiring, and low v median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2024 11.0 5.5 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.2 5.2 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 4.5 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · IA · Waterloo

4,550 Electrical, electrical wiring, and low voltage electrical work 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 Jeremie Snyder Electrical Contracting, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northwest Edison 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tech Electronics of Kansas - Topeka 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Contracting Company 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Remsen Farmers Coop 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE M L Kapp Power Station 2 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshalltown Gen Station 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Ames - Electric Distribution 23 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 1312 Lkq 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store #26 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Smith & Oby Company 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Eberhard Southwest Roofing, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hilliard, FL 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monical's Pizza Knoxville 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monical's Pizza Rantoul 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sylacauga Alabama Plant 23 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.