Residential property managing · Iowa

Independence Village of Ames

Ames, IA · ~48 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Independence Village of Ames runs at 670% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Residential property managing workplace, earning a grade F.

Independence Village of Ames: 9.4 TCR = 670% of Residential property managing BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Independence Village of Ames safety composite

Independence Village of Ames scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Independence Village of Ames: 6.0 → 12.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2024

Independence Village of Ames's TCR rose 6.8 from 6.0 in 2023 to 12.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 531311 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 670% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Independence Village…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Independence Village of Ankeny (0.0 TCR gap)

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Independence Village of Ames in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Independence Village of Ames averages 9.4 TCR (670% of the Residential property managing BLS benchmark).

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

Independence Village of Ames TCR series: 2023=6 · 2024=12.8 · BLS 1.4

Where Independence Village of Ames falls in its industry

500 Residential property managing establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Residential property managing employers in Iowa.

Independence Village of Ames (48 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Independence Village of Ames
Independence Village of Ames (48 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Independence Village of Ames has fewer employees than the Residential property managing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 12.8 6.4 4 0 0
2023 6.0 3.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

531311 · IA · Ames

500 Residential property managing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 170 employers in Ames, 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 Independence Village of Ankeny 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Danbury Sanctuary Grande 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Middletown Heritage Associates LLC 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR StoryPoint Chattanooga 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE J&J Cattle Co 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMVC Management Services 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Administration Building 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greiner Buildings, Inc. 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - University Wide 13,316 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - On Campus 12,527 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center- Main Hospital 1,415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center 1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR Jim Morrison Construction, Inc 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mopal - Palmyra 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR FC: Denver 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 165 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hokes Bluff Welding & Fab 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crown Point Bickford 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bexley Bickford 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baptist Health System Jacksonville Baptist Ent Specialists Inc 48 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. 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.