Assisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities · Iowa

Bickford of Ames

Ames, IA · ~39 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.9
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bickford of Ames runs at 524% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Assisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade F.

Bickford of Ames: 19.9 TCR = 524% of Assisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bickford of Ames safety composite

Bickford of Ames scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Bickford of Ames: 11.6 → 16.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 45.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2021

Bickford of Ames's TCR rose 5.0 from 11.6 in 2016 to 16.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 45.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623311 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 19.9 · 524% of ind

  • DART 16.6 DART
  • RANK #111/121
  • PHOTO Arbor Hills Memory C…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arbor Hills Memory Care (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bickford of Ames in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bickford of Ames averages 19.9 TCR (524% of the Assisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Bickford of Ames TCR series: 2016=11.6 · 2018=11.6 · 2019=14.4 · 2020=45.5 · 2021=16.6 · BLS 3.8

Where Bickford of Ames falls in its industry

4,127 Assisted-living facilities wit establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #111 safest of 121 Assisted-living facilities wit employers in Iowa.

Bickford of Ames (39 employees, TCR 19.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 6.9 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Bickford of Ames
Bickford of Ames (39 employees, TCR 19.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 6.9

Bickford of Ames has fewer employees than the Assisted-living facilities with on-site median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.9. 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
2021 16.6 16.6 2 2 0
2020 45.5 39.9 1 7 0
2019 14.4 0.0 3 0 0
2018 11.6 0.0 2 0 0
2016 11.6 11.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623311 · IA · Ames

4,127 Assisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities 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 Arbor Hills Memory Care 19.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meadowlark Estates 19.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Portage Bickford 19.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anthem Tinley Park Management, LLC 19.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE GGDC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience: MRN1: Marion IA R&D 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Production 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crystal Lake 39 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 Ashley Furniture Homestore- Albuquerque DC 19.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 482025-Crp-Portairs Sta 19.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairacres Manor Inc. 19.9 TCR
NAT-TCR HiBox Logistics LLC 19.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bickford of Omaha 2 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bickford of Rockford 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bickford of Okemos (Lansing) 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orange Line Oil 39 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.