Coatings application · Iowa

Waterloo - CR

Waterloo, IA · ~113 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waterloo - CR runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Coatings application workplace, earning a grade C.

Waterloo - CR: 3.1 TCR = 95% of Coatings application BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waterloo - CR safety composite

Waterloo - CR scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.35 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 - CR: 0.0 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2022

Waterloo - CR's TCR rose 5.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 5.0 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · Waterloo, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #2/11
  • PHOTO Metal Coaters of Amb…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Metal Coaters of Ambridge (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waterloo - CR in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waterloo - CR averages 3.1 TCR (95% of the Coatings application BLS benchmark).

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

Waterloo - CR TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Waterloo - CR falls in its industry

646 Coatings application establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 11 Coatings application employers in Iowa.

Waterloo - CR (113 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Waterloo - CR
Waterloo - CR (113 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Waterloo - CR has more employees than the Coatings application median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2022 5.0 3.4 3 0 0
2021 2.6 2.0 4 0 0
2020 3.4 2.7 5 0 0
2019 4.9 4.9 5 0 0
2018 2.9 2.9 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · IA · Waterloo

646 Coatings application 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 Metal Coaters of Ambridge 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Nickeloid Company - Peru Facility 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 1 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR NW Etch 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Keen Project Solutions 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acme Electric Company 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE JC Toland Painting 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michael Foods Inc. Britt, Iowa 113 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 Mylan Sugarland 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Eden Prairie Clinic PrairieCtr 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Norwesco - Fairfield 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TAW Jacksonville Service Center 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Manheim Darlington 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manheim Lakeland 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-NAI-0034-0034-00703 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-NAI-0034-0034-01782 113 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.