General services departments, government · Iowa

City of Ottumwa, Iowa

Ottumwa, IA · ~221 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Ottumwa, Iowa runs at 416% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General services departments, government workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Ottumwa, Iowa: 13.3 TCR = 416% of General services departments, government BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Ottumwa, Iowa safety composite

City of Ottumwa, Iowa scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

Rising injury rate

City of Ottumwa, Iowa: 9.8 → 15.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 15.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.26× in 2019

City of Ottumwa, Iowa's TCR rose 5.9 from 9.8 in 2016 to 15.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 13.3 · 416% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #32/34
  • PHOTO Yuba County Courthouse
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 60 inj
  • SIZE ~221 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Yuba County Courthouse (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Ottumwa, Iowa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Ottumwa, Iowa averages 13.3 TCR (416% of the General services departments, government BLS benchmark).

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

City of Ottumwa, Iowa TCR series: 2016=9.8 · 2018=14.4 · 2019=15.7 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Ottumwa, Iowa falls in its industry

1,496 General services departments, establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #32 safest of 34 General services departments, employers in Iowa.

City of Ottumwa, Iowa (221 employees, TCR 13.3) 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 Ottumwa, Iowa
City of Ottumwa, Iowa (221 employees, TCR 13.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

City of Ottumwa, Iowa has more employees than the General services departments, government median and a higher 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
2019 15.7 3.4 20 3 0
2018 14.4 2.6 23 5 0
2016 9.8 4.7 17 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · IA · Ottumwa

1,496 General services departments, government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 57 employers in Ottumwa, 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 Yuba County Courthouse 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Summit Township 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Lake Crystal 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Public Works Department 13.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Casey's Distribution Center - Ankeny 221 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2714 221 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Rapids, IA - Prairie Val 221 FTE
STATE-SIZE C. J. Moyna & Sons, LLC 222 FTE
CITY-NEAR JBS 2,121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottumwa Works 789 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Ottumwa Works 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottumwa Regional Health Center 573 FTE
NAT-TCR HE Medical Transportation 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Laurels of Sandy Creek 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Arlington Heights IL Store 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Castek Aluminum 13.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corpus Christi Home Office 221 FTE
NAT-SIZE Public Works 221 FTE
NAT-SIZE GoodCents 221 FTE
NAT-SIZE 440 Myles Standish BLVd 221 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: 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.