Other justice, public order, and safety activities · Iowa

Sheriff's Office

Waterloo, IA · ~165 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sheriff's Office runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Other justice, public order, and safety activities workplace, earning a grade B.

Sheriff's Office: 1.9 TCR = 59% of Other justice, public order, and safety activities BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sheriff's Office safety composite

Sheriff's Office scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 55%), 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 55% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.9

2016→2017

Sheriff's Office injury rate improved

Sheriff's Office's TCR fell 0.9 from 2.3 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.3 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.3 · 2017=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922190 · Waterloo, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 59% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #1/6
  • PHOTO Marshall County Cour…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~165 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Marshall County Courthouse (0.1 TCR gap)

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Sheriff's Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sheriff's Office averages 1.9 TCR (59% of the Other justice, public order, and safety activities BLS benchmark).

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

Sheriff's Office TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2017=1.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Sheriff's Office falls in its industry

79 Other justice, public order, a establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 6 Other justice, public order, a employers in Iowa.

Sheriff's Office (165 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Sheriff's Office
Sheriff's Office (165 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Sheriff's Office has more employees than the Other justice, public order, and safety median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2017 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2016 2.3 2.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922190 · IA · Waterloo

79 Other justice, public order, and safety activities 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 Marshall County Courthouse 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Intelligence Investigative Division 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Howard County Government Center 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR District Attorney 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fremont Farms of Iowa LLP 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clow Valve Company - Metal Casting Facility 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7450_17141 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE Groschopp 165 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 CORA Services Fox Chase 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Legends - New York Yankees 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sacramento (Cawsa) 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Honeywell Flight Operations MMU 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Franklin (Tnfra) 165 FTE
NAT-SIZE Decatur Hub (Ildec) 165 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belleville (Ilbel) 165 FTE
NAT-SIZE Redding Center (Cared) 165 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: 2017, 2016. 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.