Home health care agencies · Iowa

Iowa Home Care West Des Moines Branch

West Des Moines, IA · ~216 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
10.2
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Iowa Home Care West Des Moines Branch runs at 197% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Home health care agencies workplace, earning a grade D.

Iowa Home Care West Des Moines Branch: 10.2 TCR = 197% of Home health care agencies BLS 5.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iowa Home Care West Des Moines Branch safety composite

Iowa Home Care West Des Moines Branch scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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 West Des Moines Branch: 9.6 → 11.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2020

Iowa Home Care West Des Moines Branch's TCR rose 1.9 from 9.6 in 2016 to 11.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 10.2 · 197% of ind

  • DART 11.5 DART
  • RANK #33/39
  • PHOTO Elysian Hospice LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~216 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elysian Hospice LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Iowa Home Care West Des Moines Branch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Iowa Home Care West Des Moines Branch averages 10.2 TCR (197% 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 West Des Moines Branch TCR series: 2016=9.6 · 2017=11.8 · 2019=8 · 2020=11.5 · BLS 5.2

Where Iowa Home Care West Des Moines Branch falls in its industry

3,635 Home health care agencies establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #33 safest of 39 Home health care agencies employers in Iowa.

Iowa Home Care West Des Moines Branch (216 employees, TCR 10.2) 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 West Des Moines Branch
Iowa Home Care West Des Moines Branch (216 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Iowa Home Care West Des Moines Branch has more 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 11.5 11.5 9 0 0
2019 8.0 8.0 11 0 0
2017 11.8 6.5 18 2 0
2016 9.6 5.7 10 7 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 Elysian Hospice LLC 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR PLF 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mendota Heights Branch Office 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Portsmouth Hospice 10.2 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 Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital and Clinics 216 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 Spokane WA Truss 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Food Source 705-Rio Linda 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hardee's of Citronelle 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Santanna Banana Co Inc 10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE CA.TUSTI.5 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meijer 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hayssen, Inc. 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority 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: 2020, 2019, 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.