Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · Iowa

Police Department

Ames, IA · ~97 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Police Department runs at 316% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

Police Department: 10.1 TCR = 316% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Police Department safety composite

Police Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 10.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Police Department: 6.4 → 9.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 14.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.45× in 2021

Police Department's TCR rose 2.8 from 6.4 in 2016 to 9.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 316% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #13/18
  • PHOTO Police Department
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Police Department averages 10.1 TCR (316% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

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

Police Department TCR series: 2016=6.4 · 2019=14 · 2020=10.8 · 2021=9.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 18 Police departments (except Ame employers in Iowa.

Police Department (97 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Police Department
Police Department (97 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Police Department has more employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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
2021 9.2 4.6 8 0 0
2020 10.8 4.3 7 3 0
2019 14.0 8.8 7 1 0
2016 6.4 3.2 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · IA · Ames

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 170 employers in Ames, 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 Police Department 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Manassas Police Department 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR DETROIT POLICE DEPARTMENT 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tucson Police Department 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Des Moines Two Rivers Electric 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Croell Concrete Paving Crews 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rada Mfg. Co. 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE 24 - Mason City 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - University Wide 13,316 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - On Campus 12,527 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center- Main Hospital 1,415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center 1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR Bel Air Health and Rehabilitation Center 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 182 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenwood Meadows 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Courtyard by Marriott BoiseWest/ Meridian 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hardings Markets 936 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Twilight Home 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE HIS Corporate 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wal-Mark Contracting Group, LLC- Tampa 97 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.