General Medical and Surgical Hospitals · Iowa

Newton Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE

Newton, IA · ~205 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Newton Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General Medical and Surgical Hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

Newton Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE: 5.7 TCR = 76% of General Medical and Surgical Hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Newton Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE safety composite

Newton Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

Newton Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE: 4.0 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.12× in 2024

Newton Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE's TCR rose 3.4 from 4.0 in 2023 to 7.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Newton, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 5.7 · 76% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #114/160
  • PHOTO Naples Community Hos…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~205 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Naples Community Hospital, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Newton Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Newton Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE averages 5.7 TCR (76% 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

Newton Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE TCR series: 2023=4 · 2024=7.4 · BLS 7.5

Where Newton Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE falls in its industry

6,862 General Medical and Surgical H establishments

Safer than 42% 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 #114 safest of 160 General Medical and Surgical H employers in Iowa.

Newton Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE (205 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 Newton Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE
Newton Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE (205 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Newton Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE has fewer 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
2024 7.4 0.7 11 0 0
2023 4.0 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IA · Newton

6,862 General Medical and Surgical Hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 55 employers in Newton, 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 Naples Community Hospital, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PAM Specialty of Luling 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR S0358 LIVINGSTON REG. HOSP 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CentraCare Melrose 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Van Maanen Electric, Inc. 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chariton Produce Commissary 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE Viking Pump Inc - Machine Shop (A Unit of IDEX Corporation) 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henderson Products Manchester 205 FTE
CITY-NEAR TPI Composites LLC IA 925 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newton Correctional Facility 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR Progress Industries 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 748 229 FTE
NAT-TCR Rehabilitation Hospital of Southern New Mexico, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Matthew Warren Spring 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Livingston 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Whelco Industrial, Ltd 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Maximum Quality Foods, Inc. 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE Worthington Steel Delta 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jacksonville Health and Rehabilitation, LLC 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kitchen Kompact, Inc. 205 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.