Water filtration plant operation · Iowa

Water Plant

Ames, IA · ~21 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Water Plant runs at 713% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water filtration plant operation workplace, earning a grade F.

Water Plant: 8.6 TCR = 713% of Water filtration plant operation BLS 1.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Water Plant safety composite

Water Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Water Plant: 0.0 → 17.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 17.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.99× in 2021

Water Plant's TCR rose 17.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 17.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 713% of ind

  • DART 17.0 DART
  • RANK #15/18
  • PHOTO Martin County Division
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Martin County Division (0.0 TCR gap)

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Water Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Water Plant averages 8.6 TCR (713% of the Water filtration plant operation BLS benchmark).

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

Water Plant TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=12.8 · 2019=7.3 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=17 · BLS 1.2

Where Water Plant falls in its industry

727 Water filtration plant operati establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 18 Water filtration plant operati employers in Iowa.

Water Plant (21 employees, TCR 8.6) 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 Plant
Water Plant (21 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Water Plant has fewer employees than the Water filtration plant operation 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
2021 17.0 17.0 2 1 0
2020 5.7 5.7 1 0 0
2019 7.3 7.3 1 0 0
2017 12.8 6.4 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · IA · Ames

727 Water filtration plant operation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 170 employers in Ames, 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 Martin County Division 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Water Filtration and Meter Shop 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Utliities - Water Distribution 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR El Toro Water District 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Audubon Vet Clinic 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Handlos South 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE K & B Ag Supply 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - University Wide 13,316 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - On Campus 12,527 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center- Main Hospital 1,415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center 1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR Champion Tire & Wheel, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Colormasters 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Bay Masonry, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Werner Enterprises/Joliet IL Terminal 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rovince 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Umphers Construction 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Apex Graphics 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE ERC-Loveland 21 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.