MDs' (medical doctors, except mental health) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) · Iowa

Des Moines Orthopaedic Surgeons PC - ANK

Ankeny, IA · ~35 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Des Moines Orthopaedic Surgeons PC - ANK runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical MDs' (medical doctors, except mental health) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) workplace, earning a grade C.

Des Moines Orthopaedic Surgeons PC - ANK: 4.3 TCR = 114% of MDs' (medical doctors, except mental health) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Des Moines Orthopaedic Surgeons PC - ANK safety composite

Des Moines Orthopaedic Surgeons PC - ANK scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Des Moines Orthopaedic Surgeons PC - ANK: 4.2 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Des Moines Orthopaedic Surgeons PC - ANK's TCR rose 1.5 from 4.2 in 2018 to 5.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621111 · Ankeny, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.3 · 114% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #52/77
  • PHOTO Loyola Ctr for Healt…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Loyola Ctr for Health-North Riverside (0.0 TCR gap)

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Des Moines Orthopaedic Surgeons PC - ANK in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Des Moines Orthopaedic Surgeons PC - ANK averages 4.3 TCR (114% of the MDs' (medical doctors, except mental health) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) BLS benchmark).

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

Des Moines Orthopaedic Surgeons PC - ANK TCR series: 2018=4.2 · 2021=3.1 · 2023=5.7 · BLS 3.8

Where Des Moines Orthopaedic Surgeons PC - ANK falls in its industry

2,836 MDs' (medical doctors, except establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 77 MDs' (medical doctors, except employers in Iowa.

Des Moines Orthopaedic Surgeons PC - ANK (35 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Des Moines Orthopaedic Surgeons PC - ANK
Des Moines Orthopaedic Surgeons PC - ANK (35 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Des Moines Orthopaedic Surgeons PC - ANK has fewer employees than the MDs' (medical doctors, except mental hea median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2023 5.7 0.0 2 0 0
2021 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2018 4.2 4.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621111 · IA · Ankeny

2,836 MDs' (medical doctors, except mental health) offices (e.g., centers, clinics) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 141 employers in Ankeny, 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 Loyola Ctr for Health-North Riverside 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mayo Clinic Arrowhead 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Shore Medical Center 1495 Hancock Street 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CN - Drexel Hill 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE IA17-SEL-OSCEOLA HATCHERY' 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience - Algona Research - ALG2 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE JFSNA at ADM Cedar Rapids 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE On Track Construction, LLC 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Des Moines Works 1,811 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Works 1,555 FTE
CITY-NEAR PDI 859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baker Group 617 FTE
NAT-TCR Maze Nails 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ECD 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Health and Recreation Center 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR RJW Warehouse - Woodridge 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE FTZ Industries 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arrow Stage Lines - Las Vegas 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Honolulu Volkswagen 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mitchell Crane Rental Inc. 35 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: 2023, 2021, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.