Government - Transportation · Iowa

Iowa DOT - Dubuque Garage

Dubuque, IA · ~20 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Iowa DOT - Dubuque Garage runs at 484% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Government - Transportation workplace, earning a grade F.

Iowa DOT - Dubuque Garage: 15.5 TCR = 484% of Government - Transportation BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iowa DOT - Dubuque Garage safety composite

Iowa DOT - Dubuque Garage scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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).

F

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Iowa DOT - Dubuque Garage: 6.6 → 14.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 26.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2022

Iowa DOT - Dubuque Garage's TCR rose 7.4 from 6.6 in 2020 to 14.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 26.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 926120 · Dubuque, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.5 · 484% of ind

  • DART 14.0 DART
  • RANK #15/15
  • PHOTO Valley Transit
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Valley Transit (0.6 TCR gap)

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Iowa DOT - Dubuque Garage in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Iowa DOT - Dubuque Garage averages 15.5 TCR (484% of the Government - Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

Iowa DOT - Dubuque Garage TCR series: 2020=6.6 · 2021=26 · 2022=14 · BLS 3.2

Where Iowa DOT - Dubuque Garage falls in its industry

208 Government - Transportation establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 15 Government - Transportation employers in Iowa.

Iowa DOT - Dubuque Garage (20 employees, TCR 15.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Iowa DOT - Dubuque Garage
Iowa DOT - Dubuque Garage (20 employees, TCR 15.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Iowa DOT - Dubuque Garage has fewer employees than the Government - Transportation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2022 14.0 14.0 2 0 0
2021 26.0 13.0 4 0 0
2020 6.6 6.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

926120 · IA · Dubuque

208 Government - Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 217 employers in Dubuque, 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 Valley Transit 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Long Beach Public Transportation 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City Bus Garage (Transit) 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 9051 - BHT - Maintenance 16.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Skyline Pork, LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE J-Six Farms Iowa 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Handlos Jacksonville 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newell Pig II 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Dubuque Works 2,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque-MHS-IA/NE 1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Dubuque 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc 1,110 FTE
NAT-TCR HG763 15.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0362 15.5 TCR
NAT-TCR American Red Cross - 22971 Mill Creek Dr 15.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilmette Affiliate, LLC 15.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE LindenGrove Communities - Waukesha - The Lodges 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE SJC Medical Group - 527 Eisenhower 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yir Micron Precision 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE CLS Construction Services, Inc. 20 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.