Industrial Launderers · Iowa

Waterloo Ia - 247

Grundy Center, IA · ~46 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waterloo Ia - 247 runs at 383% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Industrial Launderers workplace, earning a grade F.

Waterloo Ia - 247: 8.0 TCR = 383% of Industrial Launderers BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waterloo Ia - 247 safety composite

Waterloo Ia - 247 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Waterloo Ia - 247: 7.8 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2024

Waterloo Ia - 247's TCR rose 3.8 from 7.8 in 2022 to 11.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 812332 · Grundy Center, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 383% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #12/13
  • PHOTO Dudley Laundry Compa…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dudley Laundry Company dba Appeara (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waterloo Ia - 247 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waterloo Ia - 247 averages 8.0 TCR (383% of the Industrial Launderers BLS benchmark).

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

Waterloo Ia - 247 TCR series: 2022=7.8 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=11.6 · BLS 2.1

Where Waterloo Ia - 247 falls in its industry

917 Industrial Launderers establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 13 Industrial Launderers employers in Iowa.

Waterloo Ia - 247 (46 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Waterloo Ia - 247
Waterloo Ia - 247 (46 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Waterloo Ia - 247 has fewer employees than the Industrial Launderers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 11.6 4.6 5 0 0
2023 4.7 4.7 2 0 0
2022 7.8 7.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

812332 · IA · Grundy Center

917 Industrial Launderers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 12 employers in Grundy Center, 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 Dudley Laundry Company dba Appeara 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Service Uniform Englewood Colorado 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1st Class Laundry 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tampa, FL 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hickory Hill Farms 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwest Iowa Power Cooperative 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Van Hessen USA Ottumwa 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Absolute Infrastructure 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Grundy Center 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Richelieu Foods Grundy Center 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Creekside 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boulder Contracting 37 FTE
NAT-TCR 1127 Tul2 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Blendex Company LLC 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bailey Medical Center 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Seaboard Folding Box 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rubber Fab 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE HVAC Services INC 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raleigh Office 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premium LVT 46 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.