Water treatment and distribution · Iowa

Iowa American Water

Name: Iowa American Water Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Davenport, IA · ~66 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

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

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The verdict

Iowa American Water runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade D.

Iowa American Water: 2.3 TCR = 188% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iowa American Water safety composite

Iowa American Water scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% 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).

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

Iowa American Water: 1.6 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Iowa American Water's TCR rose 1.4 from 1.6 in 2017 to 2.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Davenport, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.3 · 188% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #5/18
PHOTO DWM-Sawyer Water Pur…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DWM-Sawyer Water Purification Plant SWPP | 3300 E. Cheltenham Place (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.3
DWM-Sawyer Wat

2.3
6271-020

2.3
Inland Empire

2.3
Main Office

2.3

What this shows Iowa American Water averages 2.3 TCR (188% of the Water treatment and distribution BLS benchmark).

Iowa American Water TCR series: 2017=1.6 · 2018=2.9 · BLS 1.2

Where Iowa American Water falls in its industry

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 18 Water treatment and distributi employers in Iowa.

Iowa American Water (66 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Iowa American Water 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
2018	2.9	0.0	2	0	0
2017	1.6	0.0	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · IA · Davenport

727 Water treatment and distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 284 employers in Davenport, IA · 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	DWM-Sawyer Water Purification Plant SWPP \| 3300 E. Cheltenham Place	CHICAGO, IL	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	6271-020	ONTARIO, CA	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Inland Empire Utilites Agency	CHINO, CA	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Main Office	CANYON LAKE, TX	2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	J & K Contracting LLC	URBANDALE	66 FTE
STATE-SIZE	West Union Trenching Inc.	WEST UNION	66 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Menefee Drywall Co. Inc.	CEDAR RAPIDS	66 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Marshalltown Generating Station - BIS	MARSHALLTOWN	66 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MercyOne-Genesis, East Hospital-MHS-IA/NE	Davenport	2,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Genesis Medical Center East Campus	Davenport	1,704 FTE
CITY-NEAR	John Deere Davenport Works	Davenport	1,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amazon.com Services LLC - MLI1	Davenport	1,353 FTE
NAT-TCR	Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority	Raleigh, NC	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Arden Hills MN	Arden Hills, MN	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Linhart Construction, Inc.	Omaha, NE	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	WilmingtonDC	Wilmington, OH	2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Conner Conroe Tx Plant	Conroe, TX	66 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Custom-Crete, Austin	Austin, TX	66 FTE
NAT-SIZE	NA-US-DE-Newark-Executive Drive	Newark, DE	66 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Van Horn Manitowoc	Manitowoc, WI	66 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: 2018, 2017. 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.