Water treatment and distribution · Michigan

Great Lakes Water Authority - Adminstration

Name: Great Lakes Water Authority - Adminstration Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Detroit, MI · ~379 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 1.0
Avg TCR: 1.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Great Lakes Water Authority - Adminstration runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade C.

Great Lakes Water Authority - Adminstration: 1.0 TCR = 81% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Water Authority - Adminstration safety composite

Great Lakes Water Authority - Adminstration scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

Great Lakes Water Authority - Adminstration: 0.7 → 1.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2024

Great Lakes Water Authority - Adminstration's TCR rose 0.5 from 0.7 in 2023 to 1.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Detroit, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 1.0 · 81% of ind

DART 1.2 DART
RANK #1/26
PHOTO Milton
BOOK 2y book
INJ 7 inj
SIZE ~379 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Milton (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Great Lakes Water Authority - Adminstration averages 1.0 TCR (81% of the Water treatment and distribution BLS benchmark).

Great Lakes Water Authority - Adminstration TCR series: 2023=0.7 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 1.2

Where Great Lakes Water Authority - Adminstration falls in its industry

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 26 Water treatment and distributi employers in Michigan.

Great Lakes Water Authority - Adminstration (379 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Great Lakes Water Authority - Adminstration has more employees than the Water treatment and distribution median and a lower 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	1.2	1.2	3	0	0
2023	0.7	0.7	4	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · MI · Detroit

727 Water treatment and distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 673 employers in Detroit, MI · 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	Milton	MILTON, PA	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Semitropic Water Storage District	WASCO, CA	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Virginia American Water - Alexandria District	ALEXANDRIA, VA	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	American Water	SHORT HILLS, NJ	1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Three Rivers Corporation	MIDLAND	379 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CCNA-Paw Paw	PAW PAW	379 FTE
STATE-SIZE	RCPT MI DEARBORN SERVICE SITE	DEARBORN	379 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Detroit Institute of Arts	DETROIT	379 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Henry Ford Hospital	Detroit	8,838 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Detroit Campus	Detroit	8,632 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Delta Air Lines - DTW	Detroit	6,640 FTE
CITY-NEAR	General Motors Corporation	Detroit	5,241 FTE
NAT-TCR	North Tonawanda	North Tonawanda, NY	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Related Management Company LP The Avery	San Francisco, CA	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ardmore Service Center	Ardmore, OK	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Precision Electric, Inc.	Las Vegas, NV	1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	FC: Montgomery	Montgomery, NY	379 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Legacy Fruit Packers LLC	Wapato, WA	379 FTE
NAT-SIZE	First Quality Baby Products	Macon, GA	379 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Lake Success	Lake Success, NY	379 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. 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.