Veterinary services · Iowa

Pipestone Veterinary Clinic, Ottumwa

Ottumwa, IA · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pipestone Veterinary Clinic, Ottumwa runs at 1744% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Veterinary services workplace, earning a grade F.

Pipestone Veterinary Clinic, Ottumwa: 8.7 TCR = 1744% of Veterinary services BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pipestone Veterinary Clinic, Ottumwa safety composite

Pipestone Veterinary Clinic, Ottumwa scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 8.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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

Pipestone Veterinary Clinic, Ottumwa: 5.8 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Pipestone Veterinary Clinic, Ottumwa's TCR rose 5.8 from 5.8 in 2016 to 11.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541940 · Ottumwa, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 1744% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P66
  • PHOTO Lakefield Veterinary…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lakefield Veterinary Group - 143 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pipestone Veterinary Clinic, Ottumwa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pipestone Veterinary Clinic, Ottumwa averages 8.7 TCR (1744% of the Veterinary services BLS benchmark).

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

Pipestone Veterinary Clinic, Ottumwa TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2018=11.6 · BLS 0.5

Where Pipestone Veterinary Clinic, Ottumwa falls in its industry

261 Veterinary services establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 12.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Pipestone Veterinary Clinic, Ottumwa (26 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 12.0 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 0100200300400 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Pipestone Veterinary Clinic, Ottumwa
Pipestone Veterinary Clinic, Ottumwa (26 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 12.0

Pipestone Veterinary Clinic, Ottumwa has fewer employees than the Veterinary services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 12.0. 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
2018 11.6 0.0 1 1 0
2016 5.8 5.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541940 · IA · Ottumwa

261 Veterinary services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 57 employers in Ottumwa, 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 Lakefield Veterinary Group - 143 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Veterinary Staffing Solutions, LLC 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avenue Animal Hospital 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2nd Ave Animal Hospital 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eastwood Sow Unit 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4806-Urbandale, IA 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE DBQ Downtown Office 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Iowa Electric Cooperative 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR JBS 2,121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottumwa Works 789 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Ottumwa Works 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottumwa Regional Health Center 573 FTE
NAT-TCR Safco - WI (Steel Plant) 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Boose Aluminum Foundry Co Inc 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR QSI Moroni 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Northern Metal Recycling St Cloud 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Earth Images, Inc - Floyds Knobs 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE PAGRC 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carbo Tech, Inc. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lochmead Farms 26 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: 2018, 2016. 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.