Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) · Iowa

Fayette County Sheriff's Office

West Union, IA · ~43 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fayette County Sheriff's Office runs at 260% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) workplace, earning a grade F.

Fayette County Sheriff's Office: 8.3 TCR = 260% of Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS 3.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fayette County Sheriff's Office safety composite

Fayette County Sheriff's Office scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 8.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.2

2017→2024

Fayette County Sheriff's Office injury rate improved

Fayette County Sheriff's Office's TCR fell 2.2 from 9.7 in 2017 to 7.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 15.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.7 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=11.3 · 2020=15.2 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=10.4 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=7.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · West Union, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 260% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #11/18
  • PHOTO Town of Kittery Poli…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Town of Kittery Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fayette County Sheriff's Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fayette County Sheriff's Office averages 8.3 TCR (260% of the Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS benchmark).

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

Fayette County Sheriff's Office TCR series: 2017=9.7 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=11.3 · 2020=15.2 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=10.4 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Fayette County Sheriff's Office falls in its industry

716 Sheriffs' offices (except cour establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 18 Sheriffs' offices (except cour employers in Iowa.

Fayette County Sheriff's Office (43 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Fayette County Sheriff's Office
Fayette County Sheriff's Office (43 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Fayette County Sheriff's Office has fewer 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 Fatalities
2024 7.5 5.0 3 0 0
2023 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 10.4 0.0 0 4 0
2021 7.5 0.0 3 0 0
2020 15.2 2.5 6 0 0
2019 11.3 2.8 3 1 0
2018 2.5 0.0 0 1 0
2017 9.7 2.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · IA · West Union

716 Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 7 employers in West Union, 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 Town of Kittery Police Department 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newport News Police Department 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Highway Patrol 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saint Paul Police Emergency Communication Center 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms North 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burlington 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koester Construction Company Incorporated 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial Contracting Services 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital and Clinics 216 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Union Trenching Inc. 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hillandale Farms LLC 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fayette County Secondary Roads 41 FTE
NAT-TCR Stericycle - Kansas City,KS 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Visiting Angels Living Assistance Services York 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Jones-Hamilton Co. 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Syracuse 082 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE R29IF - MN Interagency Fire Center 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pike Lake School 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Molex St. Petersburg 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Victory Sign Industries 43 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.