Employer · Iowa

Dubuque Operating Center

Dubuque, IA · ~65 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dubuque Operating Center runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Dubuque Operating Center: 2.1 TCR = 178% of industry BLS 1.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dubuque Operating Center safety composite

Dubuque Operating Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

Dubuque Operating Center: 1.4 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2024

Dubuque Operating Center's TCR rose 2.4 from 1.4 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221122 · Dubuque, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.1 · 178% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #24/64
  • PHOTO Riverside Generating…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Riverside Generating Station (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dubuque Operating Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dubuque Operating Center averages 2.1 TCR (178% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Dubuque Operating Center TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 1.2

Where Dubuque Operating Center falls in its industry

2,958 industry establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 64 industry employers in Iowa.

Dubuque Operating Center (65 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dubuque Operating Center
Dubuque Operating Center (65 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Dubuque Operating Center has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 Fatalities
2024 3.8 1.9 1 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.9 1.9 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2019 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2018 4.2 2.8 3 0 0
2017 2.7 2.7 2 0 0
2016 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221122 · IA · Dubuque

2,958 industry 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Riverside Generating Station 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clarke Electric Cooperative, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Benning T&D 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sweetwater Utilities Board 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE PDA Duane Arnold 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forrest and Associate Inc 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Rapids, IA/Quad Cities HVAC 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Affordable Heating and Cooling 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Dubuque Works 2,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque-MHS-IA/NE 1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Dubuque 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc 1,110 FTE
NAT-TCR Riverside Generating Station 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Twist Plants 1 and 7 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Charlotte Harbor 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR St Louis Tree 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE PN Warehouse 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amstar of Western New York Inc. 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE 7312 Kingspointe Pkwy 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Utc #507 65 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.