Seed processing, post-harvest for propagation · Nebraska

Waterloo West

Waterloo, NE · ~49 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waterloo West runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Seed processing, post-harvest for propagation workplace, earning a grade A.

Waterloo West: 0.7 TCR = 15% of Seed processing, post-harvest for propagation BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waterloo West safety composite

Waterloo West scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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)
A 0.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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 West: 0.0 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2.99× in 2024

Waterloo West's TCR rose 2.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Waterloo, NE AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 15% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #1/18
  • PHOTO Boone, IA
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Boone, IA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waterloo West in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waterloo West averages 0.7 TCR (15% of the Seed processing, post-harvest for propagation BLS benchmark).

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

Waterloo West TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=2 · BLS 4.5

Where Waterloo West falls in its industry

666 Seed processing, post-harvest establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 18 Seed processing, post-harvest employers in Nebraska.

Waterloo West (49 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Waterloo West
Waterloo West (49 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Waterloo West has fewer employees than the Seed processing, post-harvest for propag median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · NE · Waterloo

666 Seed processing, post-harvest for propagation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 8 employers in Waterloo, NE · 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 Boone, IA 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stemilt Growers, LLC. - Admin / Fresh Center 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corteva Agriscience LLC 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2358-Hollandale, MS (Monsanto Co.) 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wood River Dairy 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midlands Contracting, Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE MILLARD SPRINKLER INC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ardent Mills Omaha B 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waterloo 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lyman-Richey Sand & Gravel - Shop 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fuller Distribution Systems Inc 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rasmussen Air & Gas Energy, Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-TCR Herzog Technologies Inc 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR HMNBM04 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Chemours Company FC, LLC - Johnsonville 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Belmont Admin 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Enertech Electrical Inc. 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gabriel Building Supply 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3095 Keystone 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE KMC - KUKA Systems N.A. LLC 49 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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