Water distribution (except irrigation) · Oregon

Deschutes Valley Water District

Madras, OR · ~19 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.8
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Deschutes Valley Water District runs at 1233% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water distribution (except irrigation) workplace, earning a grade F.

Deschutes Valley Water District: 14.8 TCR = 1233% of Water distribution (except irrigation) BLS 1.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Deschutes Valley Water District safety composite

Deschutes Valley Water District scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

−11.2

2017→2024

Deschutes Valley Water District injury rate improved

Deschutes Valley Water District's TCR fell 11.2 from 23.5 in 2017 to 12.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 23.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=23.5 · 2018=6.0 · 2022=17.3 · 2024=12.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Madras, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.8 · 1233% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/18
  • PHOTO Middletown Water Dep…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Middletown Water Department (0.1 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Oregon employers → · Look up another →

Deschutes Valley Water District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Deschutes Valley Water District averages 14.8 TCR (1233% of the Water distribution (except irrigation) BLS benchmark).

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

Deschutes Valley Water District TCR series: 2017=23.5 · 2018=6 · 2022=17.3 · 2024=12.3 · BLS 1.2

Where Deschutes Valley Water District falls in its industry

727 Water distribution (except irr establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 18 Water distribution (except irr employers in Oregon.

Deschutes Valley Water District (19 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Deschutes Valley Water District
Deschutes Valley Water District (19 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Deschutes Valley Water District has fewer employees than the Water distribution (except irrigation) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 12.3 0.0 2 0 0
2022 17.3 0.0 3 0 0
2018 6.0 6.0 1 0 0
2017 23.5 5.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · OR · Madras

727 Water distribution (except irrigation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 27 employers in Madras, OR · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Middletown Water Department 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rio Rancho - OMI 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roberts Irrigation Co 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Water Pollution Control Facility 14.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brentano Farms Inc 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE TMPO 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heirloom Farms, Inc 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE OR/PAC Feed & Forage 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bright Wood Corporation 879 FTE
CITY-NEAR KEITH Manufacturing Co. 204 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Charles Madras 165 FTE
CITY-NEAR SWY-0019-0019-01960 FAC-01960-MADRAS-OR 158 FTE
NAT-TCR Steel Plate Fabricators 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Wellbridge of Rochester Hills 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR PVV 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant Maintenance South 202 14.8 TCR

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, 2022, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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