Water control and quality program administration · Iowa

Municipal Utilities - Water Department

Ankeny, IA · ~15 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Municipal Utilities - Water Department runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Water control and quality program administration workplace, earning a grade C.

Municipal Utilities - Water Department: 3.5 TCR = 110% of Water control and quality program administration BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Municipal Utilities - Water Department safety composite

Municipal Utilities - Water Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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%).

Municipal Utilities - Water Department held a steady TCR band

Municipal Utilities - Water Department's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=9.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 924110 · Ankeny, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 110% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P44
  • PHOTO LASAN - Customer Car…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LASAN - Customer Care Division (0.1 TCR gap)

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Municipal Utilities - Water Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Municipal Utilities - Water Department averages 3.5 TCR (110% of the Water control and quality program administration BLS benchmark).

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

Municipal Utilities - Water Department TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=9.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.2

Where Municipal Utilities - Water Department falls in its industry

131 Water control and quality prog establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Municipal Utilities - Water Department (15 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 126 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Municipal Utilities - Water Department
Municipal Utilities - Water Department (15 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 126 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Municipal Utilities - Water Department has fewer employees than the Water control and quality program admini median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 9.4 9.4 1 0 0
2022 8.2 8.2 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

924110 · IA · Ankeny

131 Water control and quality program administration employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 141 employers in Ankeny, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR LASAN - Customer Care Division 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joint Administration Office 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SJVAPCD - Fresno 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Department of Ecology 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #2) 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Underground Contractors Inc. 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gee Asphalt Systems inc 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blending Facility 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Des Moines Works 1,811 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Works 1,555 FTE
CITY-NEAR PDI 859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baker Group 617 FTE
NAT-TCR Vinecroft Retirement Community by Heritage 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Performance Environmental Services, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gorman Management Company 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Morris Packaging Jefferson City 3.5 TCR

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. 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.