Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground · Iowa

City of Urbandale - Fire and EMS Department

Urbandale, IA · ~47 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Urbandale - Fire and EMS Department runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Urbandale - Fire and EMS Department: 6.6 TCR = 173% of Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Urbandale - Fire and EMS Department safety composite

City of Urbandale - Fire and EMS Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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

−7.4

2016→2018

City of Urbandale - Fire and EMS Department injury rate improved

City of Urbandale - Fire and EMS Department's TCR fell 7.4 from 10.9 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.9 · 2017=5.3 · 2018=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Urbandale, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 173% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #5/14
  • PHOTO Acadian Ambulance
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Acadian Ambulance (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Urbandale - Fire and EMS Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Urbandale - Fire and EMS Department averages 6.6 TCR (173% of the Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground BLS benchmark).

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

City of Urbandale - Fire and EMS Department TCR series: 2016=10.9 · 2017=5.3 · 2018=3.5 · BLS 3.8

Where City of Urbandale - Fire and EMS Department falls in its industry

976 Emergency medical transportati establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 14 Emergency medical transportati employers in Iowa.

City of Urbandale - Fire and EMS Department (47 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Urbandale - Fire and EMS Department
City of Urbandale - Fire and EMS Department (47 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

City of Urbandale - Fire and EMS Department has fewer employees than the Emergency medical transportation service median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.3. 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 3.5 1.8 2 0 0
2017 5.3 1.8 3 0 0
2016 10.9 1.8 4 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · IA · Urbandale

976 Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 104 employers in Urbandale, 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 Acadian Ambulance 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunstar EMS 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Universal Medical Response 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Napa Operations 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE DeJong Greenhouse LLC 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Des Moines Office 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goldfield 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms South 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISG Urbandale 786 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Manufacturing Corporation 612 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mosaic Urbandale/Nevada 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR URBANDALE IA 352 FTE
NAT-TCR San Antonio Food 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Camelot Leasing, LLC 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Healthsouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Austin 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR SpringHill Suites Nashville MetroCenter 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kauffman Engineering, Inc. COR 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4818-48180056-1604 E. Whaley St-Wc 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE AAH Avera St. Luke's Home Care 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richmond (South Laburnum Avenue) 47 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.