Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) · Iowa

City of Newton Iowa

Newton, IA · ~206 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Newton Iowa runs at 229% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Newton Iowa: 7.3 TCR = 229% of Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Newton Iowa safety composite

City of Newton Iowa scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−0.4

2022→2024

City of Newton Iowa injury rate improved

City of Newton Iowa's TCR fell 0.4 from 8.3 in 2022 to 7.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=8.3 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=7.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Newton, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 229% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #13/16
  • PHOTO Municipal Government
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~206 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Municipal Government (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Newton Iowa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Newton Iowa averages 7.3 TCR (229% of the Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) BLS benchmark).

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

City of Newton Iowa TCR series: 2022=8.3 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=7.9 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Newton Iowa falls in its industry

1,010 Executive offices, federal, st establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #13 safest of 16 Executive offices, federal, st employers in Iowa.

City of Newton Iowa (206 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Newton Iowa
City of Newton Iowa (206 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

City of Newton Iowa has more employees than the Executive offices, federal, state, and l 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
2024 7.9 3.0 13 0 0
2023 5.8 2.6 9 0 0
2022 8.3 3.0 10 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · IA · Newton

1,010 Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 55 employers in Newton, 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 Municipal Government 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of LeRoy 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Charleston 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Waterbury 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE ALTOONA IA - 3153 206 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0069 - West Des Moines 206 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1435 206 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lucas County Health Center 206 FTE
CITY-NEAR TPI Composites LLC IA 925 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newton Correctional Facility 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR Progress Industries 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 748 229 FTE
NAT-TCR City of LeRoy 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tiff's Treats - H11 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Resource and Crisis Center 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Diamond Dash Delivery 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Madison Kipp Corporation - Sun Prairie 206 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richland School District 206 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prairieview Lutheran Homes 206 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elliott Aviation of the Quad Cities 206 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. 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.