General merchandise, nondurable goods, merchant wholesalers · New York

Waterloo Container Co.

Waterloo, NY · ~66 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waterloo Container Co. runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General merchandise, nondurable goods, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Waterloo Container Co.: 1.2 TCR = 55% of General merchandise, nondurable goods, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waterloo Container Co. safety composite

Waterloo Container Co. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

Waterloo Container Co.: 0.0 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.33× in 2024

Waterloo Container Co.'s TCR rose 2.8 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424990 · Waterloo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.2 · 55% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #4/14
  • PHOTO Crown Products / EBSCO
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Crown Products / EBSCO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waterloo Container Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waterloo Container Co. averages 1.2 TCR (55% of the General merchandise, nondurable goods, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Waterloo Container Co. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Waterloo Container Co. falls in its industry

301 General merchandise, nondurabl establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 14 General merchandise, nondurabl employers in New York.

Waterloo Container Co. (66 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Waterloo Container Co.
Waterloo Container Co. (66 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Waterloo Container Co. has more employees than the General merchandise, nondurable goods, m median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 2.8 2.8 2 0 0
2023 2.7 0.0 2 0 0
2022 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424990 · NY · Waterloo

301 General merchandise, nondurable goods, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 23 employers in Waterloo, NY · 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 Crown Products / EBSCO 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR MERITS HEALTH PRODUCTS, INC. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CMI-ACUFF 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Safeware Inc. 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vireo Health of NY - Johnstown 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mammoser Farms 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE H.H. Dobbins Inc. 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Merrick District 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR del Lago Resort & Casino 733 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1705 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1705 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR HEP Materials Corp. 166 FTE
NAT-TCR Avnet Morelos USTX 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Vernon Plant #15 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Signature Construction LLC 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 11929 Norwell 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE D&D Mechanical, Inc. 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shope Concrete, LLC. 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beaufort County Exterminators LLC dba Hilton Head Exterminators 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE LATHROP 66 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, 2019, 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.