Home care of elderly, medical · Iowa

Iowa Home Care WDM

West Des Moines, IA · ~120 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.3
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Iowa Home Care WDM runs at 237% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Home care of elderly, medical workplace, earning a grade F.

Iowa Home Care WDM: 12.3 TCR = 237% of Home care of elderly, medical BLS 5.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iowa Home Care WDM safety composite

Iowa Home Care WDM scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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 12.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.6

2022→2024

Iowa Home Care WDM injury rate improved

Iowa Home Care WDM's TCR fell 2.6 from 13.6 in 2022 to 11.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=13.6 · 2024=11.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 12.3 · 237% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #36/39
  • PHOTO VNA Health At Home
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VNA Health At Home (0.0 TCR gap)

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Iowa Home Care WDM in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Iowa Home Care WDM averages 12.3 TCR (237% of the Home care of elderly, medical BLS benchmark).

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

Iowa Home Care WDM TCR series: 2022=13.6 · 2024=11 · BLS 5.2

Where Iowa Home Care WDM falls in its industry

3,635 Home care of elderly, medical establishments

Safer than 6% 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 #36 safest of 39 Home care of elderly, medical employers in Iowa.

Iowa Home Care WDM (120 employees, TCR 12.3) 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 WDM
Iowa Home Care WDM (120 employees, TCR 12.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Iowa Home Care WDM has more employees than the Home care of elderly, medical 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
2024 11.0 5.5 10 0 0
2022 13.6 5.8 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · IA · West Des Moines

3,635 Home care of elderly, medical 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 VNA Health At Home 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AC 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Journey Hospice 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mercy Health Home Care 12.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Summit Farms, LLC 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1886-Huxley, IA (Monsanto Co.) 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meridian Mfg 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Engineered Plastic Components INC 120 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 Second Harvest of Silicon Valley - Bing 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR University Gateway 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Honey Holding I Ltd dba Honey Solutions 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR PAL Spokane LLC 12.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Taylor Power Systems Inc 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Point Military Academy 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nesbitt Fruit Farms 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage Manor Slidell 120 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, 2022. 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.