Employer · Iowa

Ames Community SD

Ames, IA · ~36 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ames Community SD runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

Ames Community SD: 2.8 TCR = 94% of industry BLS 3.0 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ames Community SD safety composite

Ames Community SD scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−5.6

2018→2024

Ames Community SD injury rate improved

Ames Community SD's TCR fell 5.6 from 10.1 in 2018 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=10.1 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Ames, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 94% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #19/44
  • PHOTO Gallaudet Mktplc
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gallaudet Mktplc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ames Community SD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ames Community SD averages 2.8 TCR (94% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Ames Community SD TCR series: 2018=10.1 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 3.0

Where Ames Community SD falls in its industry

6,952 industry establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 44 industry employers in Iowa.

Ames Community SD (36 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ames Community SD
Ames Community SD (36 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Ames Community SD has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 4.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.1 0.0 1 0 0
2018 10.1 5.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · IA · Ames

6,952 industry 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 Gallaudet Mktplc 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Google The Great Outdoors 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anderson University 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT USI RED MANGO 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE ALGONA MARKET SWINE MANAGEMENT 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Butler County Rural Electric Cooperative 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Algona Municipal Utilities 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waterloo Water Works 36 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 Google The Great Outdoors 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gallaudet Mktplc 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Anderson University 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cbgain-Dpp-Cabana Beach Gainesville 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Denison Huffman Hall 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE MS Cafe 34 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE U Montevallo Cafe 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE WBG IFC Building 36 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.