General medical and surgical hospitals · Iowa

Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital

Rock Rapids, IA · ~73 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital runs at 49% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade A.

Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital: 3.7 TCR = 49% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital safety composite

Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital: 2.5 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2024

Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital's TCR rose 1.6 from 2.5 in 2019 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Rock Rapids, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 3.7 · 49% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #43/160
  • PHOTO Wood County Hospital
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wood County Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital averages 3.7 TCR (49% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital TCR series: 2019=2.5 · 2020=3.8 · 2021=5.6 · 2022=2 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=4 · BLS 7.5

Where Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 160 General medical and surgical h employers in Iowa.

Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital (73 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital
Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital (73 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital has fewer employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2023 4.1 2.0 2 0 0
2022 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2021 5.6 3.8 3 0 0
2020 3.8 0.0 2 0 0
2019 2.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IA · Rock Rapids

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 8 employers in Rock Rapids, 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 Wood County Hospital 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marlborough Hospital 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1855-ININD509 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2032-08681501 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lone Tree 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Headquarters 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Field Services (Public Services, Parks & Signs/Signals 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Caruth Construction Inc. 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR IA,ROCK RAPIDS - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lyon Specialty Care 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rock Rapids care Center 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR R+L Carriers - IAC 30 FTE
NAT-TCR Multi Specialty at Renaissance 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mary Schwartz Summit 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Urata & Sons Concrete, LLC 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson MS FXFE-JKM 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lebanon Production Facility 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midland 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beverage Control Inc 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Innisfallen Works 73 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.