Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) · Iowa

Dubuque County Sheriff'S Department

Name: Dubuque County Sheriff'S Department Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Dubuque, IA · ~111 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.2
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Dubuque County Sheriff'S Department runs at 225% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) workplace, earning a grade F.

Dubuque County Sheriff'S Department: 7.2 TCR = 225% of Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dubuque County Sheriff'S Department safety composite

Dubuque County Sheriff'S Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 7.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers
DART rate: B 1.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

Dubuque County Sheriff'S Department held a steady TCR band

Dubuque County Sheriff'S Department's TCR held near 0.2 from 5.7 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.7 · 2017=10.3 · 2019=5.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Dubuque, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 225% of ind

DART 1.1 DART
RANK #9/18
PHOTO City of Greensboro P…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 14 inj
SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Greensboro Police (0.0 TCR gap)

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7.2
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7.2
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What this shows Dubuque County Sheriff'S Department averages 7.2 TCR (225% of the Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS benchmark).

Dubuque County Sheriff'S Department TCR series: 2016=5.7 · 2017=10.3 · 2019=5.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Dubuque County Sheriff'S Department falls in its industry

716 Sheriffs' offices (except cour establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 18 Sheriffs' offices (except cour employers in Iowa.

Dubuque County Sheriff'S Department (111 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Dubuque County Sheriff'S Department has more employees than the Sheriffs' offices (except court function median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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
2019	5.5	1.1	4	1
2017	10.3	5.8	7	2
2016	5.7	1.1	3	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · IA · Dubuque

716 Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	City of Greensboro Police	GREENSBORO, NC	7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Police Department	BUCKEYE, AZ	7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Milford Police Department	MILFORD, CT	7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Police Department	HENDERSONVILLE, NC	7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	DMAT - Altoona Service Center	ALTOONA	111 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Corell Contractor, Inc.	WEST DES MOINES	111 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hydaker-Wheatlake - Iowa Statewide	NEWTON	111 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Shaw Electric, Inc.	DAVENPORT	111 FTE
CITY-NEAR	John Deere Dubuque Works	Dubuque	2,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque-MHS-IA/NE	Dubuque	1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MercyOne Dubuque	Dubuque	1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc	Dubuque	1,110 FTE
NAT-TCR	Creekside - Ambridge	Ambridge, PA	7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	District 10	Stockton, CA	7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	#299 Neptune Shoprite	Neptune, NJ	7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	City of Highland Park	Highland Park, IL	7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	South Salt Lake City	South Salt Lake City, UT	111 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Desert Terrace	Phoenix, AZ	111 FTE
NAT-SIZE	DoubleTree by Hilton Collinsville St Louis	Collinsville, IL	111 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cleveland Arcade (HR)	Cleveland, OH	111 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, 2017, 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.