Correctional institutions · Iowa

Fort Dodge Correctional Facility

Fort Dodge, IA · ~452 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fort Dodge Correctional Facility runs at 267% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Correctional institutions workplace, earning a grade F.

Fort Dodge Correctional Facility: 8.5 TCR = 267% of Correctional institutions BLS 3.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fort Dodge Correctional Facility safety composite

Fort Dodge Correctional Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

Fort Dodge Correctional Facility: 1.7 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 26.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.45× in 2024

Fort Dodge Correctional Facility's TCR rose 4.2 from 1.7 in 2016 to 5.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 26.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922140 · Fort Dodge, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 267% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #17/23
  • PHOTO Jerome Combs Detenti…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 81 inj
  • SIZE ~452 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jerome Combs Detention Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fort Dodge Correctional Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fort Dodge Correctional Facility averages 8.5 TCR (267% of the Correctional institutions BLS benchmark).

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

Fort Dodge Correctional Facility TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2017=1.7 · 2018=2 · 2020=20.9 · 2021=26 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Fort Dodge Correctional Facility falls in its industry

482 Correctional institutions establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 23 Correctional institutions employers in Iowa.

Fort Dodge Correctional Facility (452 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 05001,0001,500 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Fort Dodge Correctional Facility
Fort Dodge Correctional Facility (452 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Fort Dodge Correctional Facility has more employees than the Correctional institutions median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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 5.9 3.8 17 0 0
2023 4.3 3.4 10 0 0
2022 5.9 2.5 10 4 0
2021 26.0 13.0 10 6 0
2020 20.9 19.7 4 48 0
2018 2.0 0.6 9 1 0
2017 1.7 0.8 10 0 0
2016 1.7 1.4 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922140 · IA · Fort Dodge

482 Correctional institutions employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 75 employers in Fort Dodge, 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 Jerome Combs Detention Center 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lawrence Correctional Center 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ionia Correctional Facility 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR State of California - 048 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oral-B Laboratories G.P. 452 FTE
STATE-SIZE GPC - Muscatine 453 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smithfield Packaged Meats-LLC 453 FTE
STATE-SIZE PMX Industries, Inc. 451 FTE
CITY-NEAR UnityPoint Health - Trinity Regional Medical Center 790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unity Point Trinity Regional Medical Center 648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Dodge Terminal 539 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elanco Fort Dodge 434 FTE
NAT-TCR Midnight Harvest 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR US Foods Cincinnati 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Pipe, Inc 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pioneer Cabinetry Inc. 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE South Port Square 452 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orora Visual LLC 452 FTE
NAT-SIZE Faribault Foods LLC 452 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Novi 452 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, 2021, 2020, 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.