Mental health facilities, residential · Iowa

Children's Square U.S.A.

Council Bluffs, IA · ~172 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.7
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Children's Square U.S.A. runs at 412% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Mental health facilities, residential workplace, earning a grade F.

Children's Square U.S.A.: 15.7 TCR = 412% of Mental health facilities, residential BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Children's Square U.S.A. safety composite

Children's Square U.S.A. 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

TCR Δ

−13.8

2016→2018

Children's Square U.S.A. injury rate improved

Children's Square U.S.A.'s TCR fell 13.8 from 27.1 in 2016 to 13.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 27.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=27.1 · 2017=6.6 · 2018=13.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623220 · Council Bluffs, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 15.7 · 412% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO all operations
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 75 inj
  • SIZE ~172 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: all operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Children's Square U.S.A. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Children's Square U.S.A. averages 15.7 TCR (412% of the Mental health facilities, residential BLS benchmark).

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

Children's Square U.S.A. TCR series: 2016=27.1 · 2017=6.6 · 2018=13.3 · BLS 3.8

Where Children's Square U.S.A. falls in its industry

1,165 Mental health facilities, resi establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 10 Mental health facilities, resi employers in Iowa.

Children's Square U.S.A. (172 employees, TCR 15.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Children's Square U.S.A.
Children's Square U.S.A. (172 employees, TCR 15.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Children's Square U.S.A. has more employees than the Mental health facilities, residential median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2018 13.3 7.0 21 0 0
2017 6.6 3.0 11 0 0
2016 27.1 12.0 43 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623220 · IA · Council Bluffs

1,165 Mental health facilities, residential employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 165 employers in Council Bluffs, 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 all operations 15.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kensington Square 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SF - 815 Buena Vista West, SF 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vantage 15.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cedar Rapids Container 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE GRIMES IA - 3360 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEDAR FALLS IA - 3302 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wing America Travel Centre 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant 1,486 FTE
CITY-NEAR 61830022 JENNIE EDMUNDSON MEMORIAL HOSP 903 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6183-61830022 804 FTE
CITY-NEAR Council Bluffs IA 742 FTE
NAT-TCR Bear Canyon Rehabilitation Center 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 140 - Anaheim 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR New Hampshire Plastics, LLC 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercer County Surgery Center 15.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Firestone Polymers Orange Plant 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dale Rd 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chattanooga Mill 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ann Arbor Marriott Ypsilanti 172 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: 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.