Ambulance and fire service combined · Iowa

Ankeny Fire Department

Ankeny, IA · ~81 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ankeny Fire Department runs at 205% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Ankeny Fire Department: 6.6 TCR = 205% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ankeny Fire Department safety composite

Ankeny Fire Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ankeny Fire Department: 2.4 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.48× in 2024

Ankeny Fire Department's TCR rose 5.0 from 2.4 in 2020 to 7.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Ankeny, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.6 · 205% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #4/18
  • PHOTO Naperville Fire Depa…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Naperville Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ankeny Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ankeny Fire Department averages 6.6 TCR (205% of the Ambulance and fire service combined BLS benchmark).

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

Ankeny Fire Department TCR series: 2020=2.4 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=9.7 · 2024=7.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Ankeny Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 18 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Iowa.

Ankeny Fire Department (81 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Ankeny Fire Department
Ankeny Fire Department (81 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Ankeny Fire Department has more employees than the Ambulance and fire service combined median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.8. 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
2024 7.4 3.2 5 2 0
2023 9.7 6.5 7 2 0
2022 6.6 2.2 5 1 0
2021 6.8 2.3 6 0 0
2020 2.4 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IA · Ankeny

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 141 employers in Ankeny, 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 Naperville Fire Department 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Granville Township - Fire Department 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department - Main Station 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Durant 1 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE ITC Midwest - Cedar Rapids 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ottumwa Generating Station 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works Maintenance / Streets 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Des Moines Works 1,811 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Works 1,555 FTE
CITY-NEAR PDI 859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baker Group 617 FTE
NAT-TCR Weigandt Development, LTD 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Salem Tube, Inc 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1917 - Mount Laurel 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 3880 - West Jefferson FDC 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ellis Steel Company, Inc. Structural 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Casella Waste - Auburn MA Hauling 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Versatile Packagers - FL 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seco Machine 81 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. 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.