Sewage treatment plants or facilities · Oregon

City of Cottage Grove

Cottage Grove, OR · ~92 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Cottage Grove runs at 734% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sewage treatment plants or facilities workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Cottage Grove: 8.8 TCR = 734% of Sewage treatment plants or facilities BLS 1.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Cottage Grove safety composite

City of Cottage Grove scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

F

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

City of Cottage Grove: 8.7 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 16.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2024

City of Cottage Grove's TCR rose 0.4 from 8.7 in 2016 to 9.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 16.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221320 · Cottage Grove, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 734% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #9/11
  • PHOTO Wastewater Treatment…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wastewater Treatment Facility (0.1 TCR gap)

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City of Cottage Grove in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Cottage Grove averages 8.8 TCR (734% of the Sewage treatment plants or facilities BLS benchmark).

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

City of Cottage Grove TCR series: 2016=8.7 · 2018=8 · 2019=6.1 · 2020=6.7 · 2021=16.8 · 2022=7.3 · 2023=7.7 · 2024=9.1 · BLS 1.2

Where City of Cottage Grove falls in its industry

400 Sewage treatment plants or fac establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 11 Sewage treatment plants or fac employers in Oregon.

City of Cottage Grove (92 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 City of Cottage Grove
City of Cottage Grove (92 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.4

City of Cottage Grove has more employees than the Sewage treatment plants or facilities median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 9.1 3.9 7 0 0
2023 7.7 0.0 6 0 0
2022 7.3 1.2 6 0 0
2021 16.8 1.3 6 7 0
2020 6.7 1.4 4 1 0
2019 6.1 2.4 5 0 0
2018 8.0 3.4 7 0 0
2016 8.7 2.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221320 · OR · Cottage Grove

400 Sewage treatment plants or facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 25 employers in Cottage Grove, OR · 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 Wastewater Treatment Facility 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kailua Wastewater Treatment Plant 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Field Operations 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palmdale Water Reclamation Plant 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Logging Company 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roger Langeliers Construction Hillsboro 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alliance Packaging, LLC Hillsboro 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kingsford Mfg Co 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Lane School District 45J3 270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cottage Grove Lumber 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2320 217 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2320 205 FTE
NAT-TCR Pioneer College Caterers, Inc. - Unit 007/Cedarville University 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bethlehem Store 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR XPI 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4844 Central Texas Rehab Hospital 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Extreme Tool 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wastequip Eagleville 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jennmar West Kentucky 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE FoodTown #003 92 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, 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.