Hospitals, general medical and surgical · Iowa

People's Memorial Hospital of Buchanan County Health Center

Independence, IA · ~260 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

People's Memorial Hospital of Buchanan County Health Center runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade C.

People's Memorial Hospital of Buchanan County Health Center: 6.9 TCR = 92% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

People's Memorial Hospital of Buchanan County Health Center safety composite

People's Memorial Hospital of Buchanan County Health Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

−2.9

2016→2022

People's Memorial Hospital of Buchanan County Health Center injury rate improved

People's Memorial Hospital of Buchanan County Health Center's TCR fell 2.9 from 6.5 in 2016 to 3.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.5 · 2017=9.0 · 2018=8.2 · 2019=7.2 · 2022=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 6.9 · 92% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #136/160
  • PHOTO UnityPoint Health-St…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 62 inj
  • SIZE ~260 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UnityPoint Health-St Luke's Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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People's Memorial Hospital of Buchanan County Health Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows People's Memorial Hospital of Buchanan County Health Center averages 6.9 TCR (92% 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

People's Memorial Hospital of Buchanan County Health Center TCR series: 2016=6.5 · 2017=9 · 2018=8.2 · 2019=7.2 · 2022=3.6 · BLS 7.5

Where People's Memorial Hospital of Buchanan County Health Center falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 26% 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 #136 safest of 160 Hospitals, general medical and employers in Iowa.

People's Memorial Hospital of Buchanan County Health Center (260 employees, TCR 6.9) 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 People's Memorial Hospital of Buchanan County Health Center
People's Memorial Hospital of Buchanan County Health Center (260 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

People's Memorial Hospital of Buchanan County Health Center has fewer 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 3.6 2.6 7 0 0
2019 7.2 4.1 14 0 0
2018 8.2 3.1 14 2 0
2017 9.0 3.2 17 0 0
2016 6.5 3.6 10 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IA · Independence

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 26 employers in Independence, 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 UnityPoint Health-St Luke's Hospital 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1855-TNNAS178 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2252-00000465 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Mary's Good Samaritan Hospital - Greensboro 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kansas City Sausage Co., LLC / Altoona 260 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Dodge - Main Store 260 FTE
STATE-SIZE Muscatine - Main Store 260 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 913 260 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indepedence Store 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Geater Machining and Manufacturing, CO 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR INDEPENDENCE PLANT 244 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Independence Iowa 215 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Spartanburg 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 055832-Paradise Po 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 052934-Garden Grove Po 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 316480-Pahrump Po 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Police 260 FTE
NAT-SIZE Royal Building Products 260 FTE
NAT-SIZE Attic Angel Place 260 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northwest Ordinance Distilling 260 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.