Snow clearing, highways and bridges, road transportation · Iowa
City of Urbandale - Public Works Facility
Urbandale, IA · ~32 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 11.7
- Avg TCR
- 4.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
City of Urbandale - Public Works Facility runs at 259% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Snow clearing, highways and bridges, road transportation workplace, earning a grade F.
City of Urbandale - Public Works Facility: 11.7 TCR = 259% of Snow clearing, highways and bridges, road transportation BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)
City of Urbandale - Public Works Facility safety composite
City of Urbandale - Public Works Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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).
24/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- F 11.66 per 100 workers
Safer than 11% of industry peers
- DART rate
- F 7.27 per 100 workers
Safer than 19% 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 Urbandale - Public Works Facility: 6.2 → 19.4 TCR
Peak year 2019 @ 19.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2019
City of Urbandale - Public Works Facility's TCR rose 13.2 from 6.2 in 2016 to 19.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 488490 · Urbandale, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL
Grade F · TCR 11.7 · 259% of ind
- DART 7.3 DART
- RANK #11/13
- PHOTO M-5
- BOOK 4y book
- INJ 12 inj
- SIZE ~32 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: M-5 (0.0 TCR gap)
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City of Urbandale - Public Works Facility in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- APPLETON OFFIC
APPLETON OFFICE
11.9 TCR
- Werner Enterpr
Werner Enterprises/HENCOTerminal
11.8 TCR
- This site
City of Urbandale - Public Works Facility
11.7 TCR
- M-5
M-5
11.7 TCR
- TRS AUBURN
TRS AUBURN
11.7 TCR
What this shows City of Urbandale - Public Works Facility averages 11.7 TCR (259% of the Snow clearing, highways and bridges, road transportation BLS benchmark).
City of Urbandale - Public Works Facility TCR series: 2016=6.2 · 2017=6.1 · 2018=14.9 · 2019=19.4 · BLS 4.5
Where City of Urbandale - Public Works Facility falls in its industry
370 Snow clearing, highways and br establishmentsSafer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.
Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 13 Snow clearing, highways and br employers in Iowa.
City of Urbandale - Public Works Facility has fewer employees than the Snow clearing, highways and bridges, roa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 19.4 | 7.3 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| 2018 | 14.9 | 11.2 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017 | 6.1 | 6.1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 6.2 | 3.1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
488490 · IA · Urbandale
370 Snow clearing, highways and bridges, road transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 104 employers in Urbandale, 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 | M-5 | 11.7 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | TRS AUBURN | 11.7 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Werner Enterprises/HENCOTerminal | 11.8 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | APPLETON OFFICE | 11.9 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | GSC Agribusiness | 32 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Nursery Department- Fuss Office | 32 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Centrum Valley North | 32 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Washington | 32 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | ISG Urbandale | 786 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Quality Manufacturing Corporation | 612 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Mosaic Urbandale/Nevada | 363 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | URBANDALE IA | 352 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | VRC Geneva Village | 11.7 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | NEAS | 11.7 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | 5211 Brownsville Rd | 11.7 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Kamps Potterville | 11.7 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Triple C Manufacturing, Inc. | 32 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Piggly Wiggly #185 | 32 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Dixie Electro Plating. | 32 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | City of Long Beach, Ms. | 32 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.