Employer · Iowa

Waterloo 144

Waterloo, IA · ~33 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waterloo 144 runs at 218% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Waterloo 144: 9.8 TCR = 218% of industry BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waterloo 144 safety composite

Waterloo 144 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Waterloo 144: 3.2 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 16.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2024

Waterloo 144's TCR rose 4.6 from 3.2 in 2017 to 7.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 16.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.8 · 218% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #40/50
  • PHOTO 6284-YR-172 YT
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6284-YR-172 YT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waterloo 144 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waterloo 144 averages 9.8 TCR (218% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Waterloo 144 TCR series: 2017=3.2 · 2018=16.1 · 2020=8.1 · 2021=10.2 · 2022=15 · 2023=8.1 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Waterloo 144 falls in its industry

3,020 industry establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 50 industry employers in Iowa.

Waterloo 144 (33 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Waterloo 144
Waterloo 144 (33 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Waterloo 144 has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 7.8 7.8 3 0 0
2023 8.1 8.1 3 0 0
2022 15.0 10.0 6 0 0
2021 10.2 7.7 4 0 0
2020 8.1 5.4 3 0 0
2018 16.1 8.0 6 0 0
2017 3.2 3.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · IA · Waterloo

3,020 industry 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 6284-YR-172 YT 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holland - LE 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR XEJ 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Transport - 383 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Marshalltown 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics IA Hatchery & Logistics 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE East-Central Iowa Rural Electric Cooperative 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keokuk Contractors LLC 33 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 Goodwill Industries of Orange County Euclid 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR American Pallet 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Select Mechanical Inc 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Diggerland West Berlin NJ 9.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Spokane 232 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Boston 103 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harris Industrial Gases - Citrus Heights 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parkersburg 123 33 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, 2018, 2017. 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.