Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · Iowa

Ankeny Police Department

Ankeny, IA · ~84 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ankeny Police Department runs at 253% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

Ankeny Police Department: 8.1 TCR = 253% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ankeny Police Department safety composite

Ankeny Police Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 8.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−4.0

2020→2024

Ankeny Police Department injury rate improved

Ankeny Police Department's TCR fell 4.0 from 11.6 in 2020 to 7.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=11.6 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=7.8 · 2024=7.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Ankeny, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 253% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #10/18
  • PHOTO Police Department
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ankeny Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ankeny Police Department averages 8.1 TCR (253% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

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

Ankeny Police Department TCR series: 2020=11.6 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=7.8 · 2024=7.6 · BLS 3.2

Where Ankeny Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 18 Police departments (except Ame employers in Iowa.

Ankeny Police Department (84 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Ankeny Police Department
Ankeny Police Department (84 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Ankeny Police Department has fewer employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 7.6 6.4 5 1 0
2023 7.8 5.2 5 1 0
2022 6.6 4.0 5 0 0
2021 6.8 4.5 6 0 0
2020 11.6 8.7 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · IA · Ankeny

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) 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 Police Department 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Saint Paul Police Department 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Winchester Police Dept 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farmville Police Department 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stueve Construction LLC (All Locations) 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.W. Koehler Electric, Inc. 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE IP Waterloo NAC 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE ProPulse A Schieffer Co 84 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 Ft Pierce FL 36031 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Police Department 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1399 - Lake Charles 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 0795 - Knoxville NW 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Village of Westmont Fire Department 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lowes Foods #277 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Great Lakes Management GTHI Talamore St. Cloud 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage Ministries Management Company 84 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.