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Iowa Home Care Angels In The Home

West Des Moines, IA · ~40 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Iowa Home Care Angels In The Home runs at 167% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Home health care agencies workplace, earning a grade D.

Iowa Home Care Angels In The Home: 8.7 TCR = 167% of Home health care agencies BLS 5.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iowa Home Care Angels In The Home safety composite

Iowa Home Care Angels In The Home 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.03 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

Iowa Home Care Angels In The Home: 0.0 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 18.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2020

Iowa Home Care Angels In The Home's TCR rose 9.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 9.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 18.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · West Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.7 · 167% of ind

  • DART 9.0 DART
  • RANK #30/39
  • PHOTO PHS - Optage Senior …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PHS - Optage Senior Dining (0.0 TCR gap)

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Iowa Home Care Angels In The Home in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Iowa Home Care Angels In The Home averages 8.7 TCR (167% of the Home health care agencies BLS benchmark).

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

Iowa Home Care Angels In The Home TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=6.9 · 2019=18.8 · 2020=9 · BLS 5.2

Where Iowa Home Care Angels In The Home falls in its industry

3,635 Home health care agencies establishments

Safer than 17% 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 #30 safest of 39 Home health care agencies employers in Iowa.

Iowa Home Care Angels In The Home (40 employees, TCR 8.7) 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Iowa Home Care Angels In The Home
Iowa Home Care Angels In The Home (40 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Iowa Home Care Angels In The Home has fewer employees than the Home health care 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
2020 9.0 9.0 1 0 0
2019 18.8 18.8 4 0 0
2017 6.9 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · IA · West Des Moines

3,635 Home health care agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 160 employers in West Des Moines, 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 PHS - Optage Senior Dining 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mansfield Branch 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR VNA Home Care 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Horizons Home Care 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hill Farm 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Rapids Cogen 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allamakee-Clayton Electric Cooperative 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Access Energy Cooperative 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hy-Vee, Inc. 73,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wright Tree Service, Inc 4,019 FTE
CITY-NEAR WDMCS 1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR FBL Financial Group Inc., Corporate Headquarters 1,123 FTE
NAT-TCR Store #15 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Marias Care Center 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 604 Dawsonville Outlet 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR MRC McKercher 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Charleston, Wv Branch 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pio Decimo Center 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Environmental Pest Service Holdings, LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crosstex - Cuba, NY 40 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: 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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