Government · Iowa

City of Dubuque - Public Works

Dubuque, IA · ~486 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Dubuque - Public Works runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Government workplace, earning a grade C.

City of Dubuque - Public Works: 3.5 TCR = 108% of Government BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Dubuque - Public Works safety composite

City of Dubuque - Public Works scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 61% 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.0

2023→2024

City of Dubuque - Public Works injury rate improved

City of Dubuque - Public Works's TCR fell 5.0 from 6.0 in 2023 to 1.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.0 · 2024=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Dubuque, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 108% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #19/34
  • PHOTO Information Technolo…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~486 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Information Technology / Communications (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Dubuque - Public Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Dubuque - Public Works averages 3.5 TCR (108% 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 - Public Works TCR series: 2023=6 · 2024=1 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Dubuque - Public Works falls in its industry

1,496 Government establishments

Safer than 60% 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 #19 safest of 34 Government employers in Iowa.

City of Dubuque - Public Works (486 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 - Public Works
City of Dubuque - Public Works (486 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

City of Dubuque - Public Works 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 1.0 0.5 9 0 0
2023 6.0 4.8 5 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 Information Technology / Communications 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Camp Verde 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACI 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Morris 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Johnston Campus - JH60 Franklin 486 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nestle Purina PetCare 486 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa State Penitentiary 486 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pella Corporation Carroll Site 485 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 Samaritan House 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Renal Home Patient - P and F (Tampa FL USA - P and F) 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Piedmont Paving Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR FC: Kansas City 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Patriot Erectors 486 FTE
NAT-SIZE 707 Sby1000 486 FTE
NAT-SIZE Department of Administration 486 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Region : Tcu 486 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.

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