Home health care agencies · Iowa

Mercy Home Care

Mason City, IA · ~58 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mercy Home Care runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Home health care agencies workplace, earning a grade D.

Mercy Home Care: 6.3 TCR = 120% of Home health care agencies BLS 5.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mercy Home Care safety composite

Mercy Home Care scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

−4.3

2016→2018

Mercy Home Care injury rate improved

Mercy Home Care's TCR fell 4.3 from 6.7 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.7 · 2017=9.8 · 2018=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Mason City, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 120% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #23/39
  • PHOTO Constellation Hospic…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Constellation Hospice PA, LLC (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 6.3 TCR (120% 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

Mercy Home Care TCR series: 2016=6.7 · 2017=9.8 · 2018=2.3 · BLS 5.2

Where Mercy Home Care falls in its industry

3,635 Home health care agencies establishments

Safer than 31% 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 #23 safest of 39 Home health care agencies employers in Iowa.

Mercy Home Care (58 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 Mercy Home Care
Mercy Home Care (58 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 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
2018 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2017 9.8 7.3 4 0 0
2016 6.7 6.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · IA · Mason City

3,635 Home health care agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 126 employers in Mason 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 Constellation Hospice PA, LLC 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PIP 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Craig HomeCare-Omaha 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Remain At Home Senior Care, LLC 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Daybreak Foods Inc. - Oakridge 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Point 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Rapids Area Office 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE JB Holland Construction, Inc. 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center East Campus 1,592 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE 1,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center 1,556 FTE
CITY-NEAR CURRIES 683 FTE
NAT-TCR FLL - Airport United Airlines Offices 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Good Shepherd Rehabilitation & Nursing Center 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Springfield (Maspr) 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Office 70 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dakkota Louisville Chamberlain 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE South HUB 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Uge Mke 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Select Specialty Hospital - Columbus/Mount Carmel 58 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.