Correctional institutions · Iowa

Newton Correctional Facility

Newton, IA · ~863 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Newton Correctional Facility runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Correctional institutions workplace, earning a grade D.

Newton Correctional Facility: 5.1 TCR = 159% of Correctional institutions BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Newton Correctional Facility safety composite

Newton Correctional Facility scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−2.7

2016→2020

Newton Correctional Facility injury rate improved

Newton Correctional Facility's TCR fell 2.7 from 7.2 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.2 · 2017=7.7 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922140 · Newton, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 159% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #11/23
  • PHOTO MCF-Willow River
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 77 inj
  • SIZE ~863 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MCF-Willow River (0.0 TCR gap)

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Newton Correctional Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Newton Correctional Facility averages 5.1 TCR (159% of the Correctional institutions BLS benchmark).

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

Newton Correctional Facility TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2017=7.7 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=4.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Newton Correctional Facility falls in its industry

482 Correctional institutions establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

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 23 Correctional institutions employers in Iowa.

Newton Correctional Facility (863 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 05001,0001,500 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Newton Correctional Facility
Newton Correctional Facility (863 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Newton Correctional Facility has more employees than the Correctional institutions median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2020 4.5 4.5 5 7 0
2019 2.8 1.1 16 0 0
2018 3.3 1.2 14 2 0
2017 7.7 3.1 30 0 0
2016 7.2 2.8 12 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922140 · IA · Newton

482 Correctional institutions employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 55 employers in Newton, 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 MCF-Willow River 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority Duffield Facility 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arizona State Prison Complex Yuma 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR AZ State Prison Complex - Lewis 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE IOWA STATE FAIR GRANDSTAND 863 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forest City 866 FTE
STATE-SIZE PDI 859 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cobham Mission Systems Davenport LSS INC 870 FTE
CITY-NEAR TPI Composites LLC IA 925 FTE
CITY-NEAR Progress Industries 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 748 229 FTE
CITY-NEAR TSTI Newton 1550 226 FTE
NAT-TCR Bentwater Yacht & Country Club, Ltd. 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR OCPW Operations & Maintenance 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Town Hall 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Solaris Roofing Solutions, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Akebono Brake - Glasgow Plant 863 FTE
NAT-SIZE Herbalife HIMWS 863 FTE
NAT-SIZE N&L Farm Labor Services Inc 863 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham 863 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: 2020, 2019, 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.