Water Quality Control · Tennessee

Water Department

Cookeville, TN · ~55 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Water Department runs at 761% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water Quality Control workplace, earning a grade F.

Water Department: 9.1 TCR = 761% of Water Quality Control BLS 1.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Water Department safety composite

Water Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.2

2016→2017

Water Department injury rate improved

Water Department's TCR fell 2.2 from 10.2 in 2016 to 8.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.2 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.2 · 2017=8.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Cookeville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 761% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #12/15
  • PHOTO City of Roseville Wa…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Roseville Water (0.0 TCR gap)

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Water Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Water Department averages 9.1 TCR (761% of the Water Quality Control BLS benchmark).

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

Water Department TCR series: 2016=10.2 · 2017=8 · BLS 1.2

Where Water Department falls in its industry

727 Water Quality Control establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 15 Water Quality Control employers in Tennessee.

Water Department (55 employees, TCR 9.1) 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 Water Department
Water Department (55 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Water Department has more employees than the Water Quality Control 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
2017 8.0 6.4 5 0 0
2016 10.2 8.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · TN · Cookeville

727 Water Quality Control employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 135 employers in Cookeville, TN · 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 City of Roseville Water 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blue Heron 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR DWM-North District - Sunnyside Yard | 4900 W. Sunnyside 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northwest River Water Treatment Plant 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alabama GP Vaccination Department 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE GP Production (Pikeville) 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charleston Site 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Messer Construction Co. - Knoxville Region 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSC -COPORATE SERVICE CENTER 974 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cookeville CSC 908 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cookeville CKV 4 855 FTE
CITY-NEAR PUTNAM COUNTY LOCAL GOVERNMENT 773 FTE
NAT-TCR Canadochly Rebar Supply 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Aurora (Ilosw) 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR North Star Rehabilitation and Care Community 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Alfred Univ-Powell Cafe (James)** 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 3637 Republic Services Waycross 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keystone Display, Inc. 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Dixon LLC 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Location 6 55 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: 2017, 2016. 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.