Intellectual and developmental disability homes · Iowa

Ames Office/ Ames HCBS/ Ames Maint.

Ames, IA · ~197 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ames Office/ Ames HCBS/ Ames Maint. runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Intellectual and developmental disability homes workplace, earning a grade D.

Ames Office/ Ames HCBS/ Ames Maint.: 4.7 TCR = 124% of Intellectual and developmental disability homes BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ames Office/ Ames HCBS/ Ames Maint. safety composite

Ames Office/ Ames HCBS/ Ames Maint. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−1.1

2017→2018

Ames Office/ Ames HCBS/ Ames Maint. injury rate improved

Ames Office/ Ames HCBS/ Ames Maint.'s TCR fell 1.1 from 5.3 in 2017 to 4.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.3 · 2018=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623210 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 124% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #21/64
  • PHOTO Everas Community Ser…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~197 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Everas Community Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ames Office/ Ames HCBS/ Ames Maint. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ames Office/ Ames HCBS/ Ames Maint. averages 4.7 TCR (124% of the Intellectual and developmental disability homes BLS benchmark).

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

Ames Office/ Ames HCBS/ Ames Maint. TCR series: 2017=5.3 · 2018=4.2 · BLS 3.8

Where Ames Office/ Ames HCBS/ Ames Maint. falls in its industry

2,261 Intellectual and developmental establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 64 Intellectual and developmental employers in Iowa.

Ames Office/ Ames HCBS/ Ames Maint. (197 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Ames Office/ Ames HCBS/ Ames Maint.
Ames Office/ Ames HCBS/ Ames Maint. (197 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Ames Office/ Ames HCBS/ Ames Maint. has more employees than the Intellectual and developmental disabilit median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2018 4.2 3.3 5 0 0
2017 5.3 3.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623210 · IA · Ames

2,261 Intellectual and developmental disability homes 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 Everas Community Services 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR WILMINGTON ADMIN UNIT / VOCATIONAL CENTER 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clarksville Operations 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Residential mental retardation, mental health and substance abuse facility 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Des Moines Corporate Building 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE RCC Mt Pleasant 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE A&I US 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockwell Collins Bellevue Operations 197 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 Blachford Investments Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Elk Ridge Village Assisted Living 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR henry g meigs 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hess Trucking Harrisburg 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Essex Nursing & Rehab 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jocar Enterprises Inc 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE H&H Color Lab, Inc. 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Honeywell Anniston R&O 197 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.