Water treatment and distribution · Michigan

Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority - Administration & Wastewater Operations

Ypsilanti, MI · ~62 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority - Administration & Wastewater Operations runs at 350% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority - Administration & Wastewater Operations: 4.2 TCR = 350% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority - Administration & Wastewater Operations safety composite

Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority - Administration & Wastewater Operations scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority - Administration & Wastewater Operations: 2.5 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.22× in 2024

Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority - Administration & Wastewater Operations's TCR rose 1.2 from 2.5 in 2016 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Ypsilanti, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.2 · 350% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #12/26
  • PHOTO Arvin-Edison Water S…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arvin-Edison Water Storage District (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority - Administration & Wastewater Operations in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority - Administration & Wastewater Operations averages 4.2 TCR (350% 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

Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority - Administration & Wastewater Operations TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=4.9 · 2018=7.4 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=6 · 2022=0 · 2023=6.8 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 1.2

Where Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority - Administration & Wastewater Operations falls in its industry

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 26 Water treatment and distributi employers in Michigan.

Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority - Administration & Wastewater Operations (62 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority - Administration & Wastewater Operations
Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority - Administration & Wastewater Operations (62 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority - Administration & Wastewater Operations has more employees than the Water treatment and distribution median and a lower 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
2024 3.6 0.9 2 2 0
2023 6.8 2.3 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 6.0 3.0 4 2 0
2019 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 7.4 7.4 3 0 0
2017 4.9 2.5 1 1 0
2016 2.5 2.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · MI · Ypsilanti

727 Water treatment and distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 128 employers in Ypsilanti, MI · 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 Arvin-Edison Water Storage District 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Otay Water District 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baton Rouge Water Company 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Knox Utility District 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Riveridge Land Company 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshall 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lombardo Homes of St Louis 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schweitzer, Inc. 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastern Michigan University 3,706 FTE
CITY-NEAR RAWSONVILLE 679 FTE
CITY-NEAR Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility 516 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eby-Brown Detroit 374 FTE
NAT-TCR Golden Triangle Construction, LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR R+L Carriers - DSM 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR FPL Food Main Plant 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Arnott Industries 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Columbia Basin Farming 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE LeRoy Plastics Inc. 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Labconco - Fort Scott 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE 80-Jacksonville Marriott 62 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.