Coating metals and metal products for the trade · Iowa

Ranews Companies - Waterloo

Waterloo, IA · ~144 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ranews Companies - Waterloo runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Coating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade C.

Ranews Companies - Waterloo: 3.2 TCR = 98% of Coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ranews Companies - Waterloo safety composite

Ranews Companies - Waterloo scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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).

D

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

Ranews Companies - Waterloo: 1.9 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2024

Ranews Companies - Waterloo's TCR rose 3.3 from 1.9 in 2022 to 5.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · Waterloo, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 98% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #3/11
  • PHOTO AZZ Galvanizing - Pl…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~144 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AZZ Galvanizing - Plymouth (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ranews Companies - Waterloo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ranews Companies - Waterloo averages 3.2 TCR (98% of the Coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Ranews Companies - Waterloo TCR series: 2022=1.9 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Ranews Companies - Waterloo falls in its industry

646 Coating metals and metal produ establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 11 Coating metals and metal produ employers in Iowa.

Ranews Companies - Waterloo (144 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Ranews Companies - Waterloo
Ranews Companies - Waterloo (144 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Ranews Companies - Waterloo has more employees than the Coating metals and metal products for th median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 5.2 2.6 6 0 0
2023 2.6 2.6 4 0 0
2022 1.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · IA · Waterloo

646 Coating metals and metal products for the trade 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 AZZ Galvanizing - Plymouth 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ion bond - Madison Heights 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR PowderTech, LLC 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Capron Manufacturing 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Center Fresh Farm 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Osage 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gomaco Corporation Plant #1 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Riceville 144 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 Daikin Comfort Technologies - MVP 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR International Paper Marion Box 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR HAP Senior Care Inc 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Dubois County Tire & Supply Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southwark Metal Idaho Division 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA326 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10120 West Bloomfield 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10646 Park City 144 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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