Police Protection · Iowa

Sioux City Police Department

Sioux City, IA · ~160 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sioux City Police Department runs at 512% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police Protection workplace, earning a grade F.

Sioux City Police Department: 16.4 TCR = 512% of Police Protection BLS 3.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sioux City Police Department safety composite

Sioux City Police Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.9

2016→2024

Sioux City Police Department injury rate improved

Sioux City Police Department's TCR fell 6.9 from 19.4 in 2016 to 12.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 23.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=19.4 · 2018=23.7 · 2020=20.2 · 2021=11.6 · 2022=10.5 · 2023=16.8 · 2024=12.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 16.4 · 512% of ind

  • DART 9.8 DART
  • RANK #18/18
  • PHOTO Eugene Police Depart…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 115 inj
  • SIZE ~160 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eugene Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sioux City Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sioux City Police Department averages 16.4 TCR (512% of the Police Protection BLS benchmark).

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

Sioux City Police Department TCR series: 2016=19.4 · 2018=23.7 · 2020=20.2 · 2021=11.6 · 2022=10.5 · 2023=16.8 · 2024=12.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Sioux City Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police Protection establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #18 safest of 18 Police Protection employers in Iowa.

Sioux City Police Department (160 employees, TCR 16.4) 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 Sioux City Police Department
Sioux City Police Department (160 employees, TCR 16.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Sioux City Police Department has more employees than the Police Protection median and a higher 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 12.5 9.8 14 0 0
2023 16.8 9.2 22 0 0
2022 10.5 7.5 14 0 0
2021 11.6 6.2 15 0 0
2020 20.2 7.8 13 13 0
2018 23.7 7.9 18 12 0
2016 19.4 5.4 19 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · IA · Sioux City

716 Police Protection employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 259 employers in Sioux 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 Eugene Police Department 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police & Fire Departments 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metro Transit Police Department District 2 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Borough of Highland Park Police Station 16.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CDS Global Wilton 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.A Jones & Co. - Davenport, IA 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE Serta Simmons Bedding 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1475 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seaboard Triumph Foods 2,375 FTE
CITY-NEAR SeaboardTriumph Foods 1,896 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Regional Medical Center 1,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp 691 FTE
NAT-TCR Fossil Creek Nursery, Inc 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sprindance Hot Tubs- DC 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sandstone of Spring Valley 16.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Twin City Foods Inc 16.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE San Clemente 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plano Dc Bldg 221 - 3239 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ionia Mi - 3236 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Galesburg Il - 3235 160 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, 2018, 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.