Home health agencies · Iowa

Mercy Home Care

Sioux City, IA · ~30 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mercy Home Care runs at 47% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Home health agencies workplace, earning a grade A.

Mercy Home Care: 2.4 TCR = 47% of Home health agencies BLS 5.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mercy Home Care safety composite

Mercy Home Care scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

−4.8

2019→2021

Mercy Home Care injury rate improved

Mercy Home Care's TCR fell 4.8 from 6.0 in 2019 to 1.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Sioux City, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.4 · 47% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #3/39
  • PHOTO Program 018 - Brevard
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Program 018 - Brevard (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mercy Home Care in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mercy Home Care averages 2.4 TCR (47% of the Home health agencies BLS benchmark).

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

Mercy Home Care TCR series: 2019=6 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.3 · BLS 5.2

Where Mercy Home Care falls in its industry

3,635 Home health agencies establishments

Safer than 75% 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 #3 safest of 39 Home health agencies employers in Iowa.

Mercy Home Care (30 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Mercy Home Care
Mercy Home Care (30 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Mercy Home Care has fewer employees than the Home health agencies median and a lower 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
2021 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 6.0 6.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · IA · Sioux City

3,635 Home health agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 259 employers in Sioux City, 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 Program 018 - Brevard 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Catherine's Hospice, LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maxim Healthcare- Allentown 339 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Special Tree Community Services, LLC - DBA CC Rehab 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Mount Pleasant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Laborers 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Keokuk Plant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kading Construction Company Inc 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seaboard Triumph Foods 2,375 FTE
CITY-NEAR SeaboardTriumph Foods 1,896 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Regional Medical Center 1,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp 691 FTE
NAT-TCR CorrChoice-Mason (Michigan Packaging) 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Legacy Bake House 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Naomi Family Residence 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Welch Packaging Chicago 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hyatt Centric South Beach Miami 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Lenoir Assisted Living 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE El Paso CSC and El Paso Hospitals 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richards Packaging, Inc. 30 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.