Child day care centers · Iowa

Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start)

Waterloo, IA · ~85 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.9
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start) runs at 339% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Child day care centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start): 12.9 TCR = 339% of Child day care centers BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start) safety composite

Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−1.1

2020→2023

Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start) injury rate improved

Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start)'s TCR fell 1.1 from 12.9 in 2020 to 11.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=12.9 · 2022=13.9 · 2023=11.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624410 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.9 · 339% of ind

  • DART 11.8 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO Civitan Childrens Ce…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Civitan Childrens Center - KCARC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start) averages 12.9 TCR (339% of the Child day care centers BLS benchmark).

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

Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start) TCR series: 2020=12.9 · 2022=13.9 · 2023=11.8 · BLS 3.8

Where Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start) falls in its industry

272 Child day care centers establishments

Safer than 12% 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 #4 safest of 6 Child day care centers employers in Iowa.

Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start) (85 employees, TCR 12.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 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 0100200300400500 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start)
Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start) (85 employees, TCR 12.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Tri-County Child & Family Development Council, Inc. (Head Start) has more employees than the Child day care centers 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 11.8 11.8 8 0 0
2022 13.9 13.9 8 0 0
2020 12.9 12.9 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624410 · IA · Waterloo

272 Child day care centers 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 Civitan Childrens Center - KCARC 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coushatta - Cyber Quest/Kids Quest #06 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Horizon Academy #19 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR RiverCenter 13.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc. -- Toledo SPSC 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4141_7899 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enterprise Products (Northern MAPL) 85 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 Charlie's Produce Salt Lake City 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0229 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Forum at Lincoln Heights 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fox Structures Inc. 12.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jefferson 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Basin Disposal 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE OrePac Building Products - Sacramento 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saco/Biddeford - BMD 85 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.