Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) · Illinois

Water Department

Normal, IL · ~33 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore Editorial, Employer Workplace Safety Editorial Team

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.5
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

The verdict

Water Department runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) workplace, earning a grade D.

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.5
avg TCR · per 100 workers: 3.2
industry benchmark (BLS): 2
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Water Department's OSHA Total Case Rate of 4.5 to the Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) BLS benchmark of 3.2 (141% of benchmark) across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.

Injury rate over time

Water Department's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.2 industry benchmark.

Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 921110.

Where Water Department falls in its industry

1,208 Executive offices, federal, st establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 120 Executive offices, federal, st employers in Illinois.

Trend analysis for Water Department

Between 2019 and 2021, Water Department's Total Case Rate improved from 3.2 to 0.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 100% decrease across 2 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2021, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2020 saw the highest rate, at 10.3, a spread of 10.3 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 3 reporting years, Water Department recorded 2 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 2 injuries, 2 illnesses shown on this page for Water Department are sourced from its own 3 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 921110 - Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president).

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2021)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

0 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 57,027 hours worked = 0.00 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark	TCR	Source
Water Department (this establishment)	4.52	OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg
Mayor's offices industry avg	3.20	BLS IIF, NAICS 921110
Illinois state avg (all industries)	4.73	OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Water Department to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

2021: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
2020: 3 reportable incidents · 2 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
2019: 1 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year	TCR	DART	Injuries	Illnesses
2021	0.0	0.0	0	0
2020	10.3	3.5	2	1
2019	3.2	0.0	0	1

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Water Department's reported OSHA injury record versus its Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

At 141% of the Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) benchmark, Water Department reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
Judge this record against the wider Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Water Department's safety grade?

Water Department has a safety grade of D (Poor Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.5 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.2 for Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president).

How many injuries has Water Department reported?

Water Department has reported 2 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 3 years of OSHA data (2021, 2020, 2019). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.