Nursing homes · Iowa

Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community

Waverly, IA · ~217 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.5
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community runs at 270% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade F.

Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community: 17.5 TCR = 270% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community safety composite

Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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).

F

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community: 4.3 → 22.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 45.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2024

Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community's TCR rose 18.0 from 4.3 in 2016 to 22.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 45.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Waverly, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 17.5 · 270% of ind

  • DART 15.1 DART
  • RANK #365/396
  • PHOTO MHCNC, Inc. dba Care…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 82 inj
  • SIZE ~217 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MHCNC, Inc. dba Care Manor Nursing and Rehab (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community averages 17.5 TCR (270% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=5.6 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=45.7 · 2021=28.1 · 2022=13.2 · 2023=25.8 · 2024=22.3 · BLS 6.5

Where Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #365 safest of 396 Nursing homes employers in Iowa.

Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community (217 employees, TCR 17.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community
Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community (217 employees, TCR 17.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community has more employees than the Nursing homes median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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 22.3 15.1 14 20 0
2023 25.8 23.7 10 26 0
2022 13.2 9.5 11 7 0
2021 28.1 26.1 5 37 0
2020 45.7 45.1 10 65 0
2019 7.2 6.0 12 0 0
2018 5.7 5.0 6 3 0
2017 5.6 4.9 7 2 0
2016 4.3 3.1 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · IA · Waverly

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 32 employers in Waverly, 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 MHCNC, Inc. dba Care Manor Nursing and Rehab 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Comer Health and Rehabilitation 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avamere Rehabilitation of Cascade Park 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenbriar Boardman 17.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Airtron Indianapolis 217 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Rapids Corn 217 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grain Millers Inc. 217 FTE
STATE-SIZE ASSA ABLOY Wood Doors - Graham 217 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waverly Store 496 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waverly Health Center 468 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1005 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nestle USA Waverly Iowa 236 FTE
NAT-TCR Total Comfort Solutions, LLC 17.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Track Gulf Shores 17.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0624 Pittsburgh 17.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Oxford Personal Care 17.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Orlando Science Center 217 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage Retirement Facilities, LLC 217 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westland Construction 217 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sunnyview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 217 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.