Ball valves, industrial-type, manufacturing · Illinois

Mueller Water Products

Decatur, IL · ~373 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mueller Water Products runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Ball valves, industrial-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Mueller Water Products: 1.5 TCR = 45% of Ball valves, industrial-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mueller Water Products safety composite

Mueller Water Products scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Mueller Water Products held a steady TCR band

Mueller Water Products's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.9 in 2018 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.9 · 2019=0.8 · 2021=0.5 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332911 · Decatur, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 45% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #3/13
  • PHOTO Hunt Valve Company
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~373 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hunt Valve Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mueller Water Products in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mueller Water Products averages 1.5 TCR (45% of the Ball valves, industrial-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Mueller Water Products TCR series: 2018=1.9 · 2019=0.8 · 2021=0.5 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Mueller Water Products falls in its industry

298 Ball valves, industrial-type, establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 13 Ball valves, industrial-type, employers in Illinois.

Mueller Water Products (373 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 Mueller Water Products
Mueller Water Products (373 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Mueller Water Products has more employees than the Ball valves, industrial-type, manufactur median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 1.6 0.9 7 0 0
2023 2.6 1.8 10 0 0
2022 1.5 1.2 3 2 0
2021 0.5 0.5 1 1 0
2019 0.8 0.5 3 0 0
2018 1.9 1.1 4 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332911 · IL · Decatur

298 Ball valves, industrial-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 219 employers in Decatur, IL · 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 Hunt Valve Company 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Regate Technology, Inc 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fiocchi - Little Rock 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Watts - St Pauls 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 117 - Archer Western - De Moya JV II 373 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 5486 373 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 775 373 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Shore Hospital 373 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur Facility 2,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur Memorial Hospital 1,982 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decatur Public School District No. 61 1,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Staff Offices 1,198 FTE
NAT-TCR Taylor Electric 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Specialty Finishes 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Layton Facility 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR G.E. Marshall, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Anaheim Hauling - Republic Services 373 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bell's Brewery 373 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ardmore Bldg A 373 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Orange County Convention Center 373 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, 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.