Public safety bureaus and statistics centers, government · Iowa

City of Burlington

Burlington, IA · ~340 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Burlington runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Public safety bureaus and statistics centers, government workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Burlington: 6.1 TCR = 192% of Public safety bureaus and statistics centers, government BLS 3.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Burlington safety composite

City of Burlington scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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 Burlington: 7.1 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2024

City of Burlington's TCR rose 0.5 from 7.1 in 2016 to 7.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922190 · Burlington, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 192% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Black Hawk County Sh…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 140 inj
  • SIZE ~340 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office (0.3 TCR gap)

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City of Burlington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Burlington averages 6.1 TCR (192% of the Public safety bureaus and statistics centers, government BLS benchmark).

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

City of Burlington TCR series: 2016=7.1 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=4.6 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=8.8 · 2021=5.9 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=4 · 2024=7.6 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Burlington falls in its industry

79 Public safety bureaus and stat establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

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 6 Public safety bureaus and stat employers in Iowa.

City of Burlington (340 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,500 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Burlington
City of Burlington (340 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 5.3

City of Burlington has more employees than the Public safety bureaus and statistics cen median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 7.6 2.4 19 0 0
2023 4.0 2.4 10 0 0
2022 8.3 6.3 21 0 0
2021 5.9 3.1 15 0 0
2020 8.8 6.4 22 0 0
2019 4.2 2.3 11 0 0
2018 4.6 3.8 12 0 0
2017 4.8 2.4 12 0 0
2016 7.1 6.3 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922190 · IA · Burlington

79 Public safety bureaus and statistics centers, government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 68 employers in Burlington, 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 Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Modesto 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Utah Communications Authority 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tenneco (Federal Mogul, LLC.) 340 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1285 339 FTE
STATE-SIZE 559 341 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bettendorf - Main Store 338 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shearer's Foods - BUR 727 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shearer's Foods Burlington 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal-Mogul Ignition Company Burlington Iowa Plant 576 FTE
CITY-NEAR CNH_Burlington 576 FTE
NAT-TCR Owens & Minor Allentown 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Unex Manufacturing Inc 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mesa Fully Formed, LLC - Glendale 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Eagle Graphics, Inc 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE KTP - KUKA Systems N.A. LLC 340 FTE
NAT-SIZE Actavis Elizabeth LLC - Elizabeth, NJ Location 340 FTE
NAT-SIZE Howmet Aerospace Whitehall Operations - Plant 5 340 FTE
NAT-SIZE Afton Chemical Corporation, Research Center 340 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.