General medical and surgical hospitals · Iowa

Ach Mercy Hospital - Council Bluffs

Council Bluffs, IA · ~635 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ach Mercy Hospital - Council Bluffs runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade C.

Ach Mercy Hospital - Council Bluffs: 7.1 TCR = 95% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ach Mercy Hospital - Council Bluffs safety composite

Ach Mercy Hospital - Council Bluffs scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−2.5

2016→2019

Ach Mercy Hospital - Council Bluffs injury rate improved

Ach Mercy Hospital - Council Bluffs's TCR fell 2.5 from 8.2 in 2016 to 5.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.2 · 2017=7.4 · 2019=5.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Council Bluffs, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 7.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #140/160
  • PHOTO Memorial Hermann Pea…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 83 inj
  • SIZE ~635 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Memorial Hermann Pearland Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ach Mercy Hospital - Council Bluffs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ach Mercy Hospital - Council Bluffs averages 7.1 TCR (95% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

Ach Mercy Hospital - Council Bluffs TCR series: 2016=8.2 · 2017=7.4 · 2019=5.7 · BLS 7.5

Where Ach Mercy Hospital - Council Bluffs falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #140 safest of 160 General medical and surgical h employers in Iowa.

Ach Mercy Hospital - Council Bluffs (635 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ach Mercy Hospital - Council Bluffs
Ach Mercy Hospital - Council Bluffs (635 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Ach Mercy Hospital - Council Bluffs has more employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2019 5.7 3.6 22 3 0
2017 7.4 3.8 22 13 0
2016 8.2 4.5 39 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IA · Council Bluffs

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 165 employers in Council Bluffs, 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 Memorial Hermann Pearland Hospital 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spartanburg Medical Center Mary Black Campus 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arkansas Heart Hospital 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newark Wellness Center 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. Corporate Headquarters 635 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office - 01 636 FTE
STATE-SIZE CSC 639 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clinton Corn Plant 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant 1,486 FTE
CITY-NEAR 61830022 JENNIE EDMUNDSON MEMORIAL HOSP 903 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6183-61830022 804 FTE
CITY-NEAR Council Bluffs IA 742 FTE
NAT-TCR Suiza - Spartanburg OTR 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Boston - 280 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Norris Public Power District 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mills Property Management Incorporated 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE ASRC Energy Services 635 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southland Park Gaming and Racing 635 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marvin's Hardware 635 FTE
NAT-SIZE K102-M001 635 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: 2019, 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.