Employer · Iowa

Waterloo (475)

Waterloo, IA · ~401 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waterloo (475) runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

Waterloo (475): 2.5 TCR = 84% of industry BLS 3.0 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waterloo (475) safety composite

Waterloo (475) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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)
C 2.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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%).

Waterloo (475) held a steady TCR band

Waterloo (475)'s TCR held near 0.3 from 2.1 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.1 · 2018=1.4 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 721120 · Waterloo, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 84% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #4/10
  • PHOTO Silver Legacy Resort…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~401 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Silver Legacy Resort and Casino (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waterloo (475) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waterloo (475) averages 2.5 TCR (84% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Waterloo (475) TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2018=1.4 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 3.0

Where Waterloo (475) falls in its industry

381 industry establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

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 10 industry employers in Iowa.

Waterloo (475) (401 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 725 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 02,0004,0006,0008,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Waterloo (475)
Waterloo (475) (401 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 725 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Waterloo (475) has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 1.8 0.5 3 1 0
2023 4.8 2.6 9 2 0
2018 1.4 0.8 5 0 0
2016 2.1 0.7 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

721120 · IA · Waterloo

381 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 Silver Legacy Resort and Casino 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colorado Belle Hotel and Casino 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fremont Hotel Casino 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arizona Charlies LLC 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Winger Contracting Company 399 FTE
STATE-SIZE Snap On Tools 403 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1764 404 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 5115 398 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 Petland Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rose Fabricating & Industrial Solutions, LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR MHHS-TIRR 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PITT- Perch 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Urban Farmer LLC 401 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palmetto General Hospital 401 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eventide on Eighth 401 FTE
NAT-SIZE MHI RJ Aviation Inc. - Tucson Service Center 401 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, 2018, 2016. 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.