Continuing Care Retirement Community · Iowa

Ames Bickford

Ames, IA · ~33 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
25.6
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ames Bickford runs at 673% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Continuing Care Retirement Community workplace, earning a grade F.

Ames Bickford: 25.6 TCR = 673% of Continuing Care Retirement Community BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ames Bickford safety composite

Ames Bickford scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 25.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−31.3

2022→2023

Ames Bickford injury rate improved

Ames Bickford's TCR fell 31.3 from 41.2 in 2022 to 9.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 41.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=41.2 · 2023=9.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623311 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 25.6 · 673% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #117/121
  • PHOTO 2643-48060001-480601
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2643-48060001-480601 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ames Bickford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ames Bickford averages 25.6 TCR (673% of the Continuing Care Retirement Community BLS benchmark).

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

Ames Bickford TCR series: 2022=41.2 · 2023=9.9 · BLS 3.8

Where Ames Bickford falls in its industry

4,127 Continuing Care Retirement Com establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #117 safest of 121 Continuing Care Retirement Com employers in Iowa.

Ames Bickford (33 employees, TCR 25.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 6.9 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 050100150200250 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Ames Bickford
Ames Bickford (33 employees, TCR 25.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 6.9

Ames Bickford has fewer employees than the Continuing Care Retirement Community median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.9. 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
2023 9.9 0.0 2 0 0
2022 41.2 36.6 1 8 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623311 · IA · Ames

4,127 Continuing Care Retirement Community 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 2643-48060001-480601 25.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milestone Senior Living-Woodruff 25.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR bayview manor 25.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR American House - Stuart Lodge 25.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Marshalltown 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics IA Hatchery & Logistics 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE East-Central Iowa Rural Electric Cooperative 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keokuk Contractors LLC 33 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 Paldi Steel Services 25.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NHC Healthcare Sumter 25.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Glenwood Alzheimer's Special Care Center 25.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cliff Reed, Inc. 25.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Las Vegas - Main 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE GRP Madison 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE GRP Franklin 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bashas 091 33 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.