Water treatment and distribution · Illinois

Municipal Water & Sewer Treatment Facilities

Name: Municipal Water & Sewer Treatment Facilities Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Freeport, IL · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 8.6
Avg TCR: 1.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Municipal Water & Sewer Treatment Facilities runs at 719% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

Municipal Water & Sewer Treatment Facilities: 8.6 TCR = 719% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Municipal Water & Sewer Treatment Facilities safety composite

Municipal Water & Sewer Treatment Facilities scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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).

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 8.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers
DART rate: F 9.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Municipal Water & Sewer Treatment Facilities: 3.5 → 13.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 13.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2018

Municipal Water & Sewer Treatment Facilities's TCR rose 10.2 from 3.5 in 2017 to 13.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Freeport, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 719% of ind

DART 9.2 DART
RANK #42/60
PHOTO Southwest Irrigation…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southwest Irrigation, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Arizona Water

8.7
This site

8.6
Southwest Irri

8.6
Water Enterpri

8.6
El Toro Water

8.6

What this shows Municipal Water & Sewer Treatment Facilities averages 8.6 TCR (719% of the Water treatment and distribution BLS benchmark).

Municipal Water & Sewer Treatment Facilities TCR series: 2017=3.5 · 2018=13.7 · BLS 1.2

Where Municipal Water & Sewer Treatment Facilities falls in its industry

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 60 Water treatment and distributi employers in Illinois.

Municipal Water & Sewer Treatment Facilities (27 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Municipal Water & Sewer Treatment Facilities 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
2018	13.7	9.2	3	0	0
2017	3.5	3.5	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · IL · Freeport

727 Water treatment and distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 74 employers in Freeport, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Southwest Irrigation, LLC	WILLCOX, AZ	8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Water Enterprise	SUNOL, CA	8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Arizona Water Company	PHOENIX, AZ	8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	El Toro Water District	LAKE FOREST, CA	8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Pizzo Native Plant Nursery, LLC	LELAND	27 FTE
STATE-SIZE	C070	KANSAS	27 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Stonington, IL-R&D	STONINGTON	27 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bloomington	BLOOMINGTON	27 FTE
CITY-NEAR	FHN - Memorial Hospital	Freeport	1,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR	FHN	Freeport	1,057 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Helm Mechanical	Freeport	842 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Honeywell	Freeport	630 FTE
NAT-TCR	South Bend Hospice	South Bend, IN	8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Holland - EV	Evansville, IN	8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Electric Utilities	New Bern, NC	8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Manor Care Health Services - Lancaster	Lancaster, PA	8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Cdsd Phoenix (Chandler)	Chandler, AZ	27 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Terre Haute Truck Center	Terre Haute, IN	27 FTE
NAT-SIZE	MacDonald & Owen Luck	Luck, WI	27 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Village at Birchwood	Fort Wayne, IN	27 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: 2018, 2017. 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.