Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) · Iowa

Louisa Generating Station

Muscatine, IA · ~91 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Louisa Generating Station runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) workplace, earning a grade D.

Louisa Generating Station: 1.8 TCR = 153% of Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) BLS 1.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Louisa Generating Station safety composite

Louisa Generating Station scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.1

2016→2024

Louisa Generating Station injury rate improved

Louisa Generating Station's TCR fell 1.1 from 2.1 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.1 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=2.0 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221112 · Muscatine, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 1.8 · 153% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #8/13
  • PHOTO Deseret Power Plant
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Deseret Power Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Louisa Generating Station in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Louisa Generating Station averages 1.8 TCR (153% of the Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) BLS benchmark).

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

Louisa Generating Station TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=2 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 1.2

Where Louisa Generating Station falls in its industry

846 Electric power generation, fos establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 13 Electric power generation, fos employers in Iowa.

Louisa Generating Station (91 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 59 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Louisa Generating Station
Louisa Generating Station (91 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 59 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Louisa Generating Station has more employees than the Electric power generation, fossil fuel ( median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2023 2.1 2.1 2 0 0
2018 2.0 2.0 2 0 0
2017 2.1 2.1 2 0 0
2016 2.1 1.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221112 · IA · Muscatine

846 Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 79 employers in Muscatine, 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 Deseret Power Plant 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cabrillo Power I 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hays Energy LLC 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Astoria Generating Station 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trans Ova Genetics LC 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sioux City Neal North 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ames-West Operating 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Absolute Group - Residential Division 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Highway 61 982 FTE
CITY-NEAR HON Company Administration 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR SSAB Iowa Inc. 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR SSAB Iowa (SSAB North America) 466 FTE
NAT-TCR Genesis Millwork 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR D & B Machining Incorporated 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Patriot General Engineering. Inc 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Metra Industries 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE JOINN Biologics, US 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legend Companies 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Tomato Growers, Ltd. - Farm Direct 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lehigh Valley Plastics 91 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.