Water treatment and distribution · Iowa

Marshalltown Water Works

Marshalltown, IA · ~24 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Marshalltown Water Works runs at 489% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

Marshalltown Water Works: 5.9 TCR = 489% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Marshalltown Water Works safety composite

Marshalltown Water Works 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.84 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%).

Rising injury rate

Marshalltown Water Works: 5.3 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 14.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.65× in 2024

Marshalltown Water Works's TCR rose 2.4 from 5.3 in 2018 to 7.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 5.9 · 489% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #11/18
  • PHOTO EDP
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EDP (0.0 TCR gap)

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Marshalltown Water Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Marshalltown Water Works averages 5.9 TCR (489% 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

Marshalltown Water Works TCR series: 2018=5.3 · 2019=0 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=14.3 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=4 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 1.2

Where Marshalltown Water Works falls in its industry

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 18 Water treatment and distributi employers in Iowa.

Marshalltown Water Works (24 employees, TCR 5.9) 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 Marshalltown Water Works
Marshalltown Water Works (24 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Marshalltown Water Works has fewer employees than the Water treatment and distribution median and a higher 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 7.7 3.8 2 0 0
2023 4.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 4.5 4.5 1 0 0
2021 14.3 14.3 3 0 0
2020 5.2 5.2 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.3 5.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · IA · Marshalltown

727 Water treatment and distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 67 employers in Marshalltown, 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 EDP 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR A.C. Schultes of Carolina, INC 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR System Operations Center 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fallbrook PUD 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Afton Warehouse 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwood Sow Unit 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belmond 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clarion, IA 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swift Pork Company 2,350 FTE
CITY-NEAR JBS Marshalltown 2,231 FTE
CITY-NEAR Iowa Veterans Home 1,067 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lennox Residential Marshalltown 755 FTE
NAT-TCR Hilton Waikiki Beach 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park: Quarryville 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Taylor I.S.D. 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR El Reno 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fisher Auto Parts - E-TOWN 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dallas RDC 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE VERM West Plant 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harwood Mechanical 24 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.