Hospitals, general medical and surgical · Iowa

Iowa Lutheran Hospital

Des Moines, IA · ~941 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Iowa Lutheran Hospital runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade C.

Iowa Lutheran Hospital: 8.8 TCR = 117% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iowa Lutheran Hospital safety composite

Iowa Lutheran Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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 8.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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 Lutheran Hospital: 6.2 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 16.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2024

Iowa Lutheran Hospital's TCR rose 1.3 from 6.2 in 2016 to 7.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 16.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 8.8 · 117% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #151/160
  • PHOTO Central Vermont Medi…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 395 inj
  • SIZE ~941 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Vermont Medical Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Iowa Lutheran Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Iowa Lutheran Hospital averages 8.8 TCR (117% of the Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS benchmark).

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

Iowa Lutheran Hospital TCR series: 2016=6.2 · 2017=5.6 · 2018=7.8 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=16 · 2021=10 · 2022=11.9 · 2023=7.6 · 2024=7.4 · BLS 7.5

Where Iowa Lutheran Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #151 safest of 160 Hospitals, general medical and employers in Iowa.

Iowa Lutheran Hospital (941 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Iowa Lutheran Hospital
Iowa Lutheran Hospital (941 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Iowa Lutheran Hospital has more employees than the Hospitals, general medical and surgical median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 7.4 4.5 40 5 0
2023 7.6 3.6 39 7 0
2022 11.9 7.7 54 23 0
2021 10.0 7.0 40 26 0
2020 16.0 13.5 32 77 0
2019 6.4 2.5 46 0 0
2018 7.8 5.2 58 0 0
2017 5.6 2.8 42 0 0
2016 6.2 3.5 44 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IA · Des Moines

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 525 employers in 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 Central Vermont Medical Center 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2252-00000316 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charlton Memorial Hospital 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grossmont Hospital - 5555 Grossmont Center Drive 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Iowa City North Dodge (ICND) 940 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEDAR RAPIDS IA (QUAKER) 937 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0590 - Cedar Falls DC 936 FTE
STATE-SIZE CC 300590 CEDAR RAPIDS PLT 935 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 6,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines 4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Des Moines 3,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Methodist Hospital 3,495 FTE
NAT-TCR VIP Services, Inc. 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Popeyes 3352 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR New York Marriott Marquis 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Reeve Store Equipment Co 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hornbeck Offshore Services, LLC 941 FTE
NAT-SIZE Citrus Harvesting, Inc. 941 FTE
NAT-SIZE UPMC Jameson 941 FTE
NAT-SIZE AdventHealth DeLand 941 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, 2022, 2021, 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.