Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) · Iowa

Sheriff's Office

Iowa City, IA · ~112 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sheriff's Office runs at 207% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) workplace, earning a grade F.

Sheriff's Office: 6.6 TCR = 207% of Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS 3.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sheriff's Office safety composite

Sheriff's Office scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Sheriff's Office: 6.4 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 12.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2024

Sheriff's Office's TCR rose 1.3 from 6.4 in 2016 to 7.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Iowa City, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.6 · 207% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #8/18
  • PHOTO Corona Police Depart…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Corona Police Department- HQ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sheriff's Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sheriff's Office averages 6.6 TCR (207% of the Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS benchmark).

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

Sheriff's Office TCR series: 2016=6.4 · 2019=12.5 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 3.2

Where Sheriff's Office falls in its industry

716 Sheriffs' offices (except cour establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 18 Sheriffs' offices (except cour employers in Iowa.

Sheriff's Office (112 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Sheriff's Office
Sheriff's Office (112 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Sheriff's Office has more employees than the Sheriffs' offices (except court function median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 7.7 5.5 7 0 0
2023 3.5 1.2 3 0 0
2022 4.5 3.6 4 1 0
2021 7.3 4.5 8 0 0
2020 4.5 3.4 4 0 0
2019 12.5 11.3 8 3 0
2016 6.4 3.6 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · IA · Iowa City

716 Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 131 employers in Iowa City, 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 Corona Police Department- HQ 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PUBLIC SAFETY BUILDING (POLICE/ACO/DISPATCH) 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Mokena Police Department 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nicollet County Sheriff's Office 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Diebold Nixdorf Urbandale IA 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE C&S Products Co. Inc. - North Plant 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmers Union Cooperative 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0057 LOWE S OF BURLINGTON IA. 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1918-19187610 29,553 FTE
CITY-NEAR Iowa City North Dodge (ICND) 940 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8010516-P and G Iowa City 772 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Iowa City 721 FTE
NAT-TCR Richmond 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Melbourne Fl 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Landis Homes 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR KTA Super Stores - Puainako 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fechko Excavating LLC 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dallas 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wieland Metals 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plasman-Cleveland AB 112 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, 2020, 2019, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.