General medical and surgical hospitals · Iowa

Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE

Mason City, IA · ~1,590 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE: 4.4 TCR = 58% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE safety composite

Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 66% 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2023→2024

Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE injury rate improved

Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE's TCR fell 0.7 from 4.7 in 2023 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.7 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Mason City, IA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 4.4 · 58% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #66/160
  • PHOTO Marshall - GSMC 157
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 116 inj
  • SIZE ~1,590 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Marshall - GSMC 157 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE averages 4.4 TCR (58% 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

Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE TCR series: 2023=4.7 · 2024=4 · BLS 7.5

Where Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 62% 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 #66 safest of 160 General medical and surgical h employers in Iowa.

Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE (1,590 employees, TCR 4.4) 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-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE
Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE (1,590 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE has more 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 4.0 1.1 54 0 0
2023 4.7 0.8 62 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IA · Mason City

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals 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 Marshall - GSMC 157 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paintsville ARH Hospital 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR METHODIST DALLAS MEDICAL CENTER 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Madison Community Hospital d/b/a Madison Regional Health System 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mercy Medical Center East Campus 1,592 FTE
STATE-SIZE JD Waterloo Tractor and Cab Assembly Operations 1,605 FTE
STATE-SIZE MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center 1,556 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smithfield Denison 1,555 FTE
CITY-NEAR CURRIES 683 FTE
CITY-NEAR KraftHeinz Mason City Iowa 615 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 810 362 FTE
CITY-NEAR 810 346 FTE
NAT-TCR Alachua DC 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbus Distribution Center 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Martin Warehousing LLC 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Kamco Supply 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fiat Chrysler Automobiles- Indiana Transmission Plant 1 1,590 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forbes Hospital 1,589 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Forest Hospital 1,589 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seattle Parks and Recreation 1,589 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.