Local Govt · Iowa

Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

Sioux City, IA · ~29 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
27.4
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) runs at 720% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Local Govt workplace, earning a grade F.

Emergency Medical Services (EMS): 27.4 TCR = 720% of Local Govt BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) safety composite

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 27.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

−3.6

2018→2020

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) injury rate improved

Emergency Medical Services (EMS)'s TCR fell 3.6 from 30.8 in 2018 to 27.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 30.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=30.8 · 2019=24.1 · 2020=27.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Sioux City, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 27.4 · 720% of ind

  • DART 10.2 DART
  • RANK #14/14
  • PHOTO Mansfield
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mansfield (0.1 TCR gap)

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Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Emergency Medical Services (EMS) averages 27.4 TCR (720% of the Local Govt BLS benchmark).

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

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) TCR series: 2018=30.8 · 2019=24.1 · 2020=27.2 · BLS 3.8

Where Emergency Medical Services (EMS) falls in its industry

976 Local Govt establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #14 safest of 14 Local Govt employers in Iowa.

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) (29 employees, TCR 27.4) 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) (29 employees, TCR 27.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) has fewer employees than the Local Govt median and a higher 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
2020 27.2 10.2 3 5 0
2019 24.1 6.9 2 5 0
2018 30.8 3.4 3 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · IA · Sioux City

976 Local Govt employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 259 employers in Sioux City, 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 Mansfield 27.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Louisville Jefferson County Metro Govt - EMS 27.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR TriCities Operations 27.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evansville Operations 27.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE FDML Forest City 0016 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dogwood Sow Unit 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwood Sow Unit 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montgomery Valley Farms 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seaboard Triumph Foods 2,375 FTE
CITY-NEAR SeaboardTriumph Foods 1,896 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Regional Medical Center 1,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp 691 FTE
NAT-TCR Historical Properties Inc. 27.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Harmony Homes By the Bay 27.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Springbrook NY Inc - GEMS School 440 27.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Edgewood Spring Creek of Boise 27.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4769-980-Pottery Barn Kids 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE J Street Transition Center 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4769-836-Williams Sonoma 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Light Iron New York 29 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.