Government · Iowa

City of Dubuque - Library

Dubuque, IA · ~461 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Dubuque - Library runs at 2% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Government workplace, earning a grade A.

City of Dubuque - Library: 0.1 TCR = 2% of Government BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Dubuque - Library safety composite

City of Dubuque - Library scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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%).

City of Dubuque - Library held a steady TCR band

City of Dubuque - Library's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.0 in 2023 to 0.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=0.0 · 2024=0.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Dubuque, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 2% of ind

  • DART 0.1 DART
  • RANK #1/34
  • PHOTO City of Dubuque - W…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~461 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Dubuque - Water Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Dubuque - Library in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Dubuque - Library averages 0.1 TCR (2% of the Government BLS benchmark).

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

City of Dubuque - Library TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=0.1 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Dubuque - Library falls in its industry

1,496 Government establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 34 Government employers in Iowa.

City of Dubuque - Library (461 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0200400600800 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Dubuque - Library
City of Dubuque - Library (461 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

City of Dubuque - Library has more employees than the Government median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 0.1 0.1 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · IA · Dubuque

1,496 Government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 217 employers in Dubuque, 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 City of Dubuque - Water Department 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dept. of Administration (43) 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR North County 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Joaquin County Registrar of Voters 0.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE City of Dubuque - Housing 461 FTE
STATE-SIZE Polaris Inc. Spirit Lake 460 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trapeze Software Group, Inc 460 FTE
STATE-SIZE Katecho-01 459 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Dubuque Works 2,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque-MHS-IA/NE 1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Dubuque 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc 1,110 FTE
NAT-TCR ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Chemical Plant 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Infineum USA INC 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Schlumberger Technology Corporation 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenville Office 0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Syncreon Carlisle 461 FTE
NAT-SIZE Davis-Standard 461 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cargill 461 FTE
NAT-SIZE Market Basket #23 461 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.