Water treatment and distribution · Illinois

Public Utilities, Sewer, Engineering, Water Treatment Plants

Joliet, IL · ~88 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.6
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Public Utilities, Sewer, Engineering, Water Treatment Plants runs at 1303% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

Public Utilities, Sewer, Engineering, Water Treatment Plants: 15.6 TCR = 1303% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Utilities, Sewer, Engineering, Water Treatment Plants safety composite

Public Utilities, Sewer, Engineering, Water Treatment Plants scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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).

F

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Public Utilities, Sewer, Engineering, Water Treatment Plants: 3.4 → 15.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 27.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.64× in 2020

Public Utilities, Sewer, Engineering, Water Treatment Plants's TCR rose 12.3 from 3.4 in 2018 to 15.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 27.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 15.6 · 1303% of ind

  • DART 10.0 DART
  • RANK #58/60
  • PHOTO Public Works- Water …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Public Works- Water & Sewer Dept. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Public Utilities, Sewer, Engineering, Water Treatment Plants in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Public Utilities, Sewer, Engineering, Water Treatment Plants averages 15.6 TCR (1303% 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

Public Utilities, Sewer, Engineering, Water Treatment Plants TCR series: 2018=3.4 · 2019=27.8 · 2020=15.7 · BLS 1.2

Where Public Utilities, Sewer, Engineering, Water Treatment Plants falls in its industry

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #58 safest of 60 Water treatment and distributi employers in Illinois.

Public Utilities, Sewer, Engineering, Water Treatment Plants (88 employees, TCR 15.6) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Public Utilities, Sewer, Engineering, Water Treatment Plants
Public Utilities, Sewer, Engineering, Water Treatment Plants (88 employees, TCR 15.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Public Utilities, Sewer, Engineering, Water Treatment Plants has more 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
2020 15.7 10.0 7 4 0
2019 27.8 9.7 22 1 0
2018 3.4 1.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · IL · Joliet

727 Water treatment and distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 281 employers in Joliet, 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 Public Works- Water & Sewer Dept. 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Unit Irrigation District 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gurnee Public Works Department 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Essex Operations and Control 16.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE ENGIE Distributed Solar and Storage 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE 72E - Western N - IL Electric Ops 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Western N - IL Electric Ops 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crystal Lake Reporting Center 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR County Of Will 2,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MDW2 2,361 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MDW2 2,101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Joliet 2,089 FTE
NAT-TCR The Belvedere Center 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Two Men And A Truck 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Monongalia County Emergency Medical Services, Inc. 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Temperance Lake Ridge 15.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE VTC Redding 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE SMCTD-North Base Bus Maintenance 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Micaville 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Xanitos EVS at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital 88 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. 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.