General medical and surgical hospitals · Iowa

MercyOne Dubuque

Dubuque, IA · ~1,285 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MercyOne Dubuque runs at 69% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

MercyOne Dubuque: 5.2 TCR = 69% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MercyOne Dubuque safety composite

MercyOne Dubuque scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

−0.6

2019→2022

MercyOne Dubuque injury rate improved

MercyOne Dubuque's TCR fell 0.6 from 6.0 in 2019 to 5.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.0 · 2020=4.2 · 2022=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 5.2 · 69% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #95/160
  • PHOTO Sentara Martha Jeffe…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 121 inj
  • SIZE ~1,285 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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MercyOne Dubuque in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MercyOne Dubuque averages 5.2 TCR (69% 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

MercyOne Dubuque TCR series: 2019=6 · 2020=4.2 · 2022=5.3 · BLS 7.5

Where MercyOne Dubuque falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 49% 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 #95 safest of 160 General medical and surgical h employers in Iowa.

MercyOne Dubuque (1,285 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 Dubuque
MercyOne Dubuque (1,285 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

MercyOne Dubuque 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
2022 5.3 3.4 40 6 0
2020 4.2 1.4 32 5 0
2019 6.0 2.5 49 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IA · Dubuque

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 217 employers in Dubuque, 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 Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital-MHS-PA 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Luke's Des Peres Hospital 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aurora Medical Center Two Rivers 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Luther College 1,279 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mary Greeley Medical Center 1,277 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque-MHS-IA/NE 1,296 FTE
STATE-SIZE Louisa County Plant 1,248 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Dubuque Works 2,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc 1,110 FTE
CITY-NEAR UnityPoint Health Finley Hospital 835 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unity Point Finley Hospital 826 FTE
NAT-TCR 1050 - Fairfield-OH 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR HG789 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bodycote Thermal Processing, Inc. - Greensburg 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Aurora Medical Center Two Rivers 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 381793-Columbus Oh P&Dc 1,285 FTE
NAT-SIZE Power Solutions LLC 1,285 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gadsden Regional Medical Center 1,285 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Collins 1,285 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, 2020, 2019. 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.