Hospitals, general medical and surgical · Iowa

MercyOne Des Moines

Des Moines, IA · ~3,547 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
11.0
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MercyOne Des Moines runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade D.

MercyOne Des Moines: 11.0 TCR = 147% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MercyOne Des Moines safety composite

MercyOne Des Moines scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

MercyOne Des Moines: 9.4 → 12.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 12.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.37× in 2022

MercyOne Des Moines's TCR rose 3.3 from 9.4 in 2019 to 12.7 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 11.0 · 147% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #157/160
  • PHOTO Claremore Indian Hos…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 510 inj
  • SIZE ~3,547 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Claremore Indian Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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MercyOne Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MercyOne Des Moines averages 11.0 TCR (147% 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

MercyOne Des Moines TCR series: 2019=9.4 · 2022=12.7 · BLS 7.5

Where MercyOne Des Moines falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 5% 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 #157 safest of 160 Hospitals, general medical and employers in Iowa.

MercyOne Des Moines (3,547 employees, TCR 11.0) 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 MercyOne Des Moines
MercyOne Des Moines (3,547 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

MercyOne 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
2022 12.7 4.1 243 65 0
2019 9.4 1.9 267 38 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 Claremore Indian Hospital 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alaska Regional Hospital 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cypress Pointe Surgical Hospital 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 330 INTEGRIS Canadian Valley Hosp 11.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Des Moines Methodist Hospital 3,495 FTE
STATE-SIZE CRST EXPEDITED INC 3,475 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Methodist Hospital 3,456 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2643-14030001-140301 3,252 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 6,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines 4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE 2,985 FTE
CITY-NEAR TMC Transportation - Corporate 2,208 FTE
NAT-TCR 5472-NAI-0034-0034-00778 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1150 N Attleboro 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 199723-Wic-River City Sta 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 284224-Kearney Po 11.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital 3,545 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation Grand Prairie Campus (1435) 3,544 FTE
NAT-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CLE2 3,541 FTE
NAT-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : FAT1 3,539 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: 2022, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.