Waste collection, treatment, and disposal through a sewer system · Michigan

Great Lakes Water Authority - Water Resource Recovery Facility

Detroit, MI · ~380 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lakes Water Authority - Water Resource Recovery Facility runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Waste collection, treatment, and disposal through a sewer system workplace, earning a grade D.

Great Lakes Water Authority - Water Resource Recovery Facility: 2.3 TCR = 192% of Waste collection, treatment, and disposal through a sewer system BLS 1.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Water Authority - Water Resource Recovery Facility safety composite

Great Lakes Water Authority - Water Resource Recovery Facility scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−0.9

2023→2024

Great Lakes Water Authority - Water Resource Recovery Facility injury rate improved

Great Lakes Water Authority - Water Resource Recovery Facility's TCR fell 0.9 from 2.8 in 2023 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.8 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221320 · Detroit, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.3 · 192% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #6/20
  • PHOTO H2O innovation Opera…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~380 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: H2O innovation Operation & Maintenance LLC - Laurel O&M (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Water Authority - Water Resource Recovery Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Lakes Water Authority - Water Resource Recovery Facility averages 2.3 TCR (192% of the Waste collection, treatment, and disposal through a sewer system BLS benchmark).

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

Great Lakes Water Authority - Water Resource Recovery Facility TCR series: 2023=2.8 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 1.2

Where Great Lakes Water Authority - Water Resource Recovery Facility falls in its industry

400 Waste collection, treatment, a establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 20 Waste collection, treatment, a employers in Michigan.

Great Lakes Water Authority - Water Resource Recovery Facility (380 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Great Lakes Water Authority - Water Resource Recovery Facility
Great Lakes Water Authority - Water Resource Recovery Facility (380 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Great Lakes Water Authority - Water Resource Recovery Facility has more employees than the Waste collection, treatment, and disposa median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 1.8 1.1 7 1 0
2023 2.8 2.8 9 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221320 · MI · Detroit

400 Waste collection, treatment, and disposal through a sewer system 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR H2O innovation Operation & Maintenance LLC - Laurel O&M 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spartanburg Sanitary Sewer District 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR OCSD Plant 1 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE EJ 380 FTE
STATE-SIZE DBN Engine 380 FTE
STATE-SIZE HI-LEX Hudson (HCIH) 380 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flint Tool and Die 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Ford Hospital 8,838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Detroit Campus 8,632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Air Lines - DTW 6,640 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Corporation 5,241 FTE
NAT-TCR International Control Services 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Jamaica 305 Federal Cir 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Third Element 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunbelt Crushing 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Riverside Metro Auto Group, LLC 380 FTE
NAT-SIZE Finelite 380 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kronos Foods 380 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nmasp - Aspen Facility 380 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.