Water treatment and distribution · Illinois

Village of Bethalto Public Works Department

Bethalto, IL · ~39 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Village of Bethalto Public Works Department runs at 653% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

Village of Bethalto Public Works Department: 7.8 TCR = 653% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Village of Bethalto Public Works Department safety composite

Village of Bethalto Public Works Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

Village of Bethalto Public Works Department: 7.0 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2018

Village of Bethalto Public Works Department's TCR rose 1.7 from 7.0 in 2017 to 8.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 653% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #38/60
  • PHOTO Prestonsburg City's …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Prestonsburg City's Utilities Commission (0.1 TCR gap)

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Village of Bethalto Public Works Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Village of Bethalto Public Works Department averages 7.8 TCR (653% 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

Village of Bethalto Public Works Department TCR series: 2017=7 · 2018=8.7 · BLS 1.2

Where Village of Bethalto Public Works Department falls in its industry

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 21% 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 #38 safest of 60 Water treatment and distributi employers in Illinois.

Village of Bethalto Public Works Department (39 employees, TCR 7.8) 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Village of Bethalto Public Works Department
Village of Bethalto Public Works Department (39 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Village of Bethalto Public Works Department 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 8.7 4.3 2 0 0
2017 7.0 3.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · IL · Bethalto

727 Water treatment and distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 10 employers in Bethalto, 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 Prestonsburg City's Utilities Commission 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Champlain Water District 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Operations 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Canyon Lake Water Service Company 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's El Paso 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Glen Nursery, Inc 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRG Joliet Generating Station 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Bloomington 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bethalto CUSD #8 330 FTE
CITY-NEAR 178 BETHALTO 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR Village of Bethalto 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cedarhurst Living, LLC - Bethalto 51 FTE
NAT-TCR SSA Cooper 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Manheim Auto Auction 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fulton 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR #572 Bordentown Shoprite 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Winter Garden Plant 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fravert Services Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Office 20 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sioux Falls - 110 39 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.