Intellectual and developmental disability facilities (e.g., homes, hospitals, intermediate care facilities), residential · Iowa

Hills & Dales

Dubuque, IA · ~362 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.2
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hills & Dales runs at 268% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Intellectual and developmental disability facilities (e.g., homes, hospitals, intermediate care facilities), residential workplace, earning a grade F.

Hills & Dales: 10.2 TCR = 268% of Intellectual and developmental disability facilities (e.g., homes, hospitals, intermediate care facilities), residential BLS 3.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hills & Dales safety composite

Hills & Dales scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Hills & Dales: 10.9 → 14.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 15.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.24× in 2023

Hills & Dales's TCR rose 3.8 from 10.9 in 2016 to 14.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 15.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623210 · Dubuque, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.2 · 268% of ind

  • DART 12.6 DART
  • RANK #51/64
  • PHOTO Chili Case Management
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 209 inj
  • SIZE ~362 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chili Case Management (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hills & Dales in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hills & Dales averages 10.2 TCR (268% of the Intellectual and developmental disability facilities (e.g., homes, hospitals, intermediate care facilities), residential BLS benchmark).

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

Hills & Dales TCR series: 2016=10.9 · 2017=0.8 · 2018=8.1 · 2019=15.1 · 2020=11.5 · 2023=14.7 · BLS 3.8

Where Hills & Dales falls in its industry

2,261 Intellectual and developmental establishments

Safer than 24% 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 #51 safest of 64 Intellectual and developmental employers in Iowa.

Hills & Dales (362 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Hills & Dales
Hills & Dales (362 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Hills & Dales has more employees than the Intellectual and developmental disabilit 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
2023 14.7 12.6 51 0 0
2020 11.5 9.2 39 0 0
2019 15.1 11.6 47 0 0
2018 8.1 4.9 23 0 0
2017 0.8 0.6 21 0 0
2016 10.9 9.7 28 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623210 · IA · Dubuque

2,261 Intellectual and developmental disability facilities (e.g., homes, hospitals, intermediate care facilities), residential employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 217 employers in Dubuque, 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 Chili Case Management 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hurlbut St. IRA 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 583358 101228_IL NR AI BONSAI NSFY20 ABI_PEDS 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 542173 340778_ST ANDREWS_608 SAINT ANDREWS DR_I 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 810 362 FTE
STATE-SIZE Office-West Des Moines - Grimes IT 362 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ridgecrest Village 362 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Coralville 362 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Dubuque Works 2,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque-MHS-IA/NE 1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Dubuque 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc 1,110 FTE
NAT-TCR Spee Dee Delivery Service, Inc - Fergus Falls 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Manitou Equipment America LLC - Belvidere 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Altmann Construction Company Inc. 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sway West Lake Hills 10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Autoneum North America Aiken 362 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salt Lake Brewing Co 362 FTE
NAT-SIZE E2 Consulting Engineers, Inc. 362 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allied Ag Associates, Inc 362 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, 2020, 2019, 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.