Amateur sports teams, recreational · Iowa

Parks and Recreation Department

Ankeny, IA · ~238 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Parks and Recreation Department runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Amateur sports teams, recreational workplace, earning a grade D.

Parks and Recreation Department: 4.1 TCR = 131% of Amateur sports teams, recreational BLS 3.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Parks and Recreation Department safety composite

Parks and Recreation Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Parks and Recreation Department: 0.0 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Parks and Recreation Department's TCR rose 9.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 9.0 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 713990 · Ankeny, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 131% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Unit 5: Parks & Recr…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~238 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Unit 5: Parks & Recreation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Parks and Recreation Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Parks and Recreation Department averages 4.1 TCR (131% of the Amateur sports teams, recreational BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Parks and Recreation Department TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=3.2 · 2022=9 · BLS 3.1

Where Parks and Recreation Department falls in its industry

289 Amateur sports teams, recreati establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Amateur sports teams, recreati employers in Iowa.

Parks and Recreation Department (238 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Parks and Recreation Department
Parks and Recreation Department (238 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Parks and Recreation Department has more employees than the Amateur sports teams, recreational median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 9.0 0.0 3 0 0
2021 3.2 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

713990 · IA · Ankeny

289 Amateur sports teams, recreational employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 141 employers in Ankeny, 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 Unit 5: Parks & Recreation 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Topgolf Jacksonville 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fly High Ogden Trampoliine Park 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Escape Game Meadowlands LLC 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cedar River Mill 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stanley Infrastructure 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mechdyne Marshalltown 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Seating 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Des Moines Works 1,811 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Works 1,555 FTE
CITY-NEAR PDI 859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baker Group 617 FTE
NAT-TCR Oahu Plumbing & Sheet Metal LTD 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 475 - McHenry 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1256 - Linden 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1303 - Kansas City Speedway 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southern Pine Electric 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corna Kokosing Construction Co., Inc. 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE C213 Roanoke 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rebekah Children's Services 238 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, 2021, 2020. 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.