General medical and surgical hospitals · Iowa
Mercy Medical Center - West Lake
West Des Moines, IA · ~530 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 7.1
- Avg TCR
- 7.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Mercy Medical Center - West Lake runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade C.
Mercy Medical Center - West Lake: 7.1 TCR = 95% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Mercy Medical Center - West Lake safety composite
Mercy Medical Center - West Lake scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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).
54/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- F 7.13 per 100 workers
Safer than 24% of industry peers
- DART rate
- A 0 per 100 workers
Safer than 91% 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 - West Lake: 3.4 → 8.1 TCR
Peak year 2017 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019
Mercy Medical Center - West Lake's TCR rose 4.7 from 3.4 in 2016 to 8.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 622110 · West Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID
Grade C · TCR 7.1 · 95% of ind
- DART 0.0 DART
- RANK #141/160
- PHOTO Mount Sinai Brooklyn…
- BOOK 4y book
- INJ 93 inj
- SIZE ~530 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Mount Sinai Brooklyn Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)
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Mercy Medical Center - West Lake in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- This site
Mercy Medical Center - West Lake
7.1 TCR
- Mount Sinai Br
Mount Sinai Brooklyn Hospital
7.1 TCR
- St. Mary's Hos
St. Mary's Hospital
7.1 TCR
- Mercy St. Anne
Mercy St. Anne's Hospital
7.1 TCR
- MCMD-Moses H C
MCMD-Moses H Cone MD
7.1 TCR
What this shows Mercy Medical Center - West Lake averages 7.1 TCR (95% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).
Mercy Medical Center - West Lake TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=8.8 · 2018=8.2 · 2019=8.1 · BLS 7.5
Where Mercy Medical Center - West Lake falls in its industry
6,862 General medical and surgical h establishmentsSafer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.
Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #141 safest of 160 General medical and surgical h employers in Iowa.
Mercy Medical Center - West Lake has more employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 8.1 | 0.0 | 25 | 3 | 0 |
| 2018 | 8.2 | 1.2 | 26 | 2 | 0 |
| 2017 | 8.8 | 0.3 | 30 | 4 | 0 |
| 2016 | 3.4 | 1.3 | 12 | 1 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
622110 · IA · West Des Moines
6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 160 employers in West 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 | Mount Sinai Brooklyn Hospital | 7.1 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | St. Mary's Hospital | 7.1 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Mercy St. Anne's Hospital | 7.1 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | MCMD-Moses H Cone MD | 7.1 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | John Deere Waterloo Works Foundry | 529 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | DES MOINES NDC_1360742 | 529 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | CNUC | 529 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | City Hall | 531 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Hy-Vee, Inc. | 73,135 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Wright Tree Service, Inc | 4,019 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | WDMCS | 1,363 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | FBL Financial Group Inc., Corporate Headquarters | 1,123 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Florida Cleaning Systems dba FCS Facility Svcs -GOAA | 7.1 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Rc Farms-Salinas Valley | 7.1 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | LTD Aurora (Westridge) # 7 | 7.1 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Bethesda on Turkey Creek | 7.1 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Vasvision Berry Farms, LLC | 530 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Tucson Electric Power (Energy Delivery/T&D) | 530 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | James Construction I&M Division | 530 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | GROB Bluffton | 530 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.