Hospitals, general medical and surgical · Iowa

Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital and Clinics

West Union, IA · ~216 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital and Clinics runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade B.

Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital and Clinics: 5.2 TCR = 70% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital and Clinics safety composite

Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital and Clinics scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.7

2016→2018

Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital and Clinics injury rate improved

Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital and Clinics's TCR fell 3.7 from 7.1 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.1 · 2017=5.2 · 2018=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · West Union, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 5.2 · 70% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #100/160
  • PHOTO CHRISTUS Santa Rosa …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~216 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CHRISTUS Santa Rosa New Braunfels (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital and Clinics in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital and Clinics averages 5.2 TCR (70% of the Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS benchmark).

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

Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital and Clinics TCR series: 2016=7.1 · 2017=5.2 · 2018=3.4 · BLS 7.5

Where Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital and Clinics falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 49% 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 #100 safest of 160 Hospitals, general medical and employers in Iowa.

Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital and Clinics (216 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital and Clinics
Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital and Clinics (216 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital and Clinics has fewer employees than the Hospitals, general medical and surgical 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
2018 3.4 0.6 6 0 0
2017 5.2 1.7 9 0 0
2016 7.1 1.3 5 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IA · West Union

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 7 employers in West Union, 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 CHRISTUS Santa Rosa New Braunfels 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Santa Fe 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carteret Health Care 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Christus Spohn Kleberg-113 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Palmer Candy Company Hwy 75 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clow Valve Company 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE IA001 - IA-Des Moines-Pilot Travel Center 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Home Care West Des Moines Branch 216 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Union Trenching Inc. 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hillandale Farms LLC 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fayette County Sheriff's Office 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fayette County Secondary Roads 41 FTE
NAT-TCR ITW Deltar Fasteners - Frankfort 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Linde - Union City 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 669 - Naples 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Fulton 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carbide 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE DSSA-AZ 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE MaineGeneral - Hathaway Creative Center 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rusk Rehabilitation Center 216 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: 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.