General medical and surgical hospitals · Iowa

Covenant Medical Center

Waterloo, IA · ~1,404 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Covenant Medical Center runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade C.

Covenant Medical Center: 7.0 TCR = 93% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Covenant Medical Center safety composite

Covenant Medical Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

Covenant Medical Center held a steady TCR band

Covenant Medical Center's TCR held near 0.3 from 6.0 in 2016 to 5.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.0 · 2022=7.1 · 2023=8.9 · 2024=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Waterloo, IA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 7.0 · 93% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #137/160
  • PHOTO Physicians Regional …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 269 inj
  • SIZE ~1,404 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Physicians Regional Healthcare System - Pine Ridge (0.0 TCR gap)

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Covenant Medical Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Covenant Medical Center averages 7.0 TCR (93% 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

Covenant Medical Center TCR series: 2016=6 · 2022=7.1 · 2023=8.9 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 7.5

Where Covenant Medical Center falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 26% 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 #137 safest of 160 General medical and surgical h employers in Iowa.

Covenant Medical Center (1,404 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 Covenant Medical Center
Covenant Medical Center (1,404 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Covenant Medical Center has more employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a higher 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 5.8 2.4 55 6 0
2023 8.9 4.3 67 15 0
2022 7.1 2.4 65 2 0
2016 6.0 3.1 82 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IA · Waterloo

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 172 employers in Waterloo, 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 Physicians Regional Healthcare System - Pine Ridge 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Mary's Hospital - Centralia 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2643-42090001-420901 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR HODGEMAN COUNTY HEALTH CENTER 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE John Deere Davenport Works 1,394 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mary Greeley Medical Center- Main Hospital 1,415 FTE
STATE-SIZE John Deere Waterloo Works Drive Train Operations 1,430 FTE
STATE-SIZE JD Waterloo Tractor & Cab Assembly Operations 1,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Hawk County Extension 4,790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waterloo Pork Plant 2,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR UnityPoint 2,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR JD Waterloo Tractor and Cab Assembly Operations 1,605 FTE
NAT-TCR 5 Star Building Products 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Food Bank of Eastern Michigan 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage-4, LLC 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 36L7-EAN Holdings, LLC Hawaii Division 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mercy Regional Medical Center 1,404 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Systems 1,404 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6017-Corp Loc - USA United States - Elk Grove 1,404 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mount Carmel Grove City Hospital 1,403 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, 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.