Hospitals, general medical and surgical · Iowa

Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines

Des Moines, IA · ~4,884 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade C.

Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines: 6.1 TCR = 81% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines safety composite

Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines: 4.3 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.26× in 2018

Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines's TCR rose 2.1 from 4.3 in 2016 to 6.4 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 6.1 · 81% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #121/160
  • PHOTO County Jails #1, #2 …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 593 inj
  • SIZE ~4,884 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: County Jails #1, #2 & #9 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines averages 6.1 TCR (81% 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

Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=7.4 · 2018=6.4 · BLS 7.5

Where Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 37% 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 #121 safest of 160 Hospitals, general medical and employers in Iowa.

Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines (4,884 employees, TCR 6.1) 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 Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines
Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines (4,884 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines 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
2018 6.4 1.6 199 15 0
2017 7.4 1.9 241 27 0
2016 4.3 1.8 153 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 County Jails #1, #2 & #9 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR TriStar Ashland City Medical Center 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR OCONEE MEDICAL CAMPUS 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Hawk County Extension 4,790 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wright Tree Service, Inc 4,019 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockwell Collins - Cedar Rapids C Ave 6,172 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids IA 400 NE) 6,179 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 6,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Des Moines 3,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Methodist Hospital 3,495 FTE
CITY-NEAR Iowa Methodist Hospital 3,456 FTE
NAT-TCR North Platte (Nenpl) 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Stanton Center (Kysta) 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Grande Vista (Cagvs) 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Avon Hi-Life, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Division 40 University of Rochester 4,884 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercy Hospital Springfield 4,885 FTE
NAT-SIZE WellSpan York Hospital 4,886 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sentara Norfolk General Hospital 4,863 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.