Water treatment and distribution · Michigan

Great Lates Water Authority- Water Quality

Detroit, MI · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lates Water Authority- Water Quality runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade D.

Great Lates Water Authority- Water Quality: 1.6 TCR = 130% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lates Water Authority- Water Quality safety composite

Great Lates Water Authority- Water Quality scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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 Lates Water Authority- Water Quality: 0.0 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Great Lates Water Authority- Water Quality's TCR rose 3.1 from 0.0 in 2023 to 3.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Detroit, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 1.6 · 130% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #5/26
  • PHOTO Butler Operations
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Butler Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Lates Water Authority- Water Quality in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Lates Water Authority- Water Quality averages 1.6 TCR (130% of the Water treatment and distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Great Lates Water Authority- Water Quality TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 1.2

Where Great Lates Water Authority- Water Quality falls in its industry

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 26 Water treatment and distributi employers in Michigan.

Great Lates Water Authority- Water Quality (26 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Great Lates Water Authority- Water Quality
Great Lates Water Authority- Water Quality (26 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Great Lates Water Authority- Water Quality has fewer 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 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Butler Operations 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Water Operations and Maintenance, LLC City of Camden 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR EPCOR USA Vista Ridge 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6271-2700 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Walther Farms Cass City 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE United States Gypsum 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Genesee Power Station 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bronson SC 26 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 RFF & Sons Inc 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR PIC Wire & Cable 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Creekside 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR IDL Worldwide 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Valentine plating 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Marcos 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE New England Communications 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courier Printing Corp 26 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.