General medical and surgical hospitals · Iowa

Lakes Regional Healthcare

Spirit Lake, IA · ~309 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lakes Regional Healthcare runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade A.

Lakes Regional Healthcare: 2.0 TCR = 27% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lakes Regional Healthcare safety composite

Lakes Regional Healthcare scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

Lakes Regional Healthcare: 2.2 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2024

Lakes Regional Healthcare's TCR rose 0.9 from 2.2 in 2017 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Spirit Lake, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 27% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #15/160
  • PHOTO Bexar County Hospita…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~309 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bexar County Hospital District (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lakes Regional Healthcare in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lakes Regional Healthcare averages 2.0 TCR (27% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

Lakes Regional Healthcare TCR series: 2017=2.2 · 2018=0.4 · 2019=1.7 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 7.5

Where Lakes Regional Healthcare falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 89% 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 #15 safest of 160 General medical and surgical h employers in Iowa.

Lakes Regional Healthcare (309 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Lakes Regional Healthcare
Lakes Regional Healthcare (309 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Lakes Regional Healthcare has fewer employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a lower 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 3.1 1.5 8 0 0
2023 3.7 1.9 10 0 0
2022 1.5 0.0 4 0 0
2021 1.5 0.4 4 0 0
2019 1.7 0.4 4 0 0
2018 0.4 0.0 1 0 0
2017 2.2 1.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IA · Spirit Lake

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 23 employers in Spirit Lake, 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 Bexar County Hospital District 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 22060001-220601 ST FRANCIS HEALTHCARE CAMPUS 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Joseph Hospital Primary and Specialty Care of North Nashua 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avera Health Avera Sacred Heart Hospital Campus 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oak Steel 309 FTE
STATE-SIZE Infastech, Decorah MFG (IND, EF) 310 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hagie Manufacturing 310 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unverferth Manufacturing, Shell Rock Iowa Location 310 FTE
CITY-NEAR Polaris Inc. Spirit Lake 460 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spirit Lake Facility 328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pure Fishing - Spirit Lake 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1415 231 FTE
NAT-TCR Travis Construction Company, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Clark and Riggs Printing Inc 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Aspen Surgical PR Corporation 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR S04135 - Skyline RDF 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hartnell Packing 309 FTE
NAT-SIZE Des Plaines Park District 309 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bancker Construction Corp. 309 FTE
NAT-SIZE Division of Flood Management 309 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.