Executive and legislative office combinations · Iowa

City of Altoona

Altoona, IA · ~150 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Altoona runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Executive and legislative office combinations workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Altoona: 5.8 TCR = 183% of Executive and legislative office combinations BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Altoona safety composite

City of Altoona scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 55% 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

City of Altoona: 4.0 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.75× in 2021

City of Altoona's TCR rose 2.6 from 4.0 in 2019 to 6.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921140 · Altoona, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 183% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #5/14
  • PHOTO Village of Deerfield
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~150 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Village of Deerfield (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Altoona in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Altoona averages 5.8 TCR (183% of the Executive and legislative office combinations BLS benchmark).

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

City of Altoona TCR series: 2019=4 · 2020=7 · 2021=6.6 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Altoona falls in its industry

239 Executive and legislative offi establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 14 Executive and legislative offi employers in Iowa.

City of Altoona (150 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 282 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 01,0002,0003,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Altoona
City of Altoona (150 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 282 employees and a TCR of 4.8

City of Altoona has fewer employees than the Executive and legislative office combina median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2021 6.6 4.4 9 0 0
2020 7.0 6.2 9 0 0
2019 4.0 0.8 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921140 · IA · Altoona

239 Executive and legislative office combinations employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 52 employers in Altoona, 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 Village of Deerfield 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cass County 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Services 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Local Government 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Portzen Construction Inc. 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE DUBUQUE IA PLANT 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Printer Inc 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mechdyne Corporation 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casion 1,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adventureland Resort 1,040 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino, Inc. 965 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Meadows Racetrack, Casino & Hotel 877 FTE
NAT-TCR Everlasting Fence Company 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakeside Industries (060) 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR DaBecca Natural Foods, Inc 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-40437) 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Classic Cosmetics, Inc. 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vetsource Oregon 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE PHL - Ground Ops 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Touchmark at Harwood Groves LLC 150 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.