Home health agencies · Iowa

Friends At Home

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

F
Failing Safety Record
36.0
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Friends At Home runs at 693% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Home health agencies workplace, earning a grade F.

Friends At Home: 36.0 TCR = 693% of Home health agencies BLS 5.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Friends At Home safety composite

Friends At Home scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 36.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 27.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Friends At Home: 30.6 → 65.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 65.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.83× in 2022

Friends At Home's TCR rose 35.3 from 30.6 in 2020 to 65.9 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 36.0 · 693% of ind

  • DART 65.9 DART
  • RANK #39/39
  • PHOTO atHome
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: atHome (6.8 TCR gap)

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Friends At Home in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Friends At Home averages 36.0 TCR (693% of the Home health agencies BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Friends At Home TCR series: 2020=30.6 · 2021=41.5 · 2022=65.9 · BLS 5.2

Where Friends At Home falls in its industry

3,635 Home health agencies establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 39 Home health agencies employers in Iowa.

Friends At Home (29 employees, TCR 36.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 02004006008001,000 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Friends At Home
Friends At Home (29 employees, TCR 36.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Friends At Home has fewer employees than the Home health agencies median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2022 65.9 65.9 1 6 0
2021 41.5 27.6 5 4 0
2020 30.6 30.6 2 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · IA · Waterloo

3,635 Home health agencies 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 atHome 29.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CenterCare Hospice LLC 28.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0152 - LV 28.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR IHC Brownfield HH 28.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Emergency Medical Services (EMS) 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ankney 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwood Sow Unit 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dogwood Sow Unit 29 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 Rockland Facility 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 048 Juvenile Detention Center 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kemper Moving Systems 30.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hope Feed Mill 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phoenix (GCR) 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grace Woodlands 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Matthews of Pewaukee 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.