Social service centers, multipurpose · Iowa

Polk County

Des Moines, IA · ~155 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Polk County runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Social service centers, multipurpose workplace, earning a grade D.

Polk County: 6.3 TCR = 165% of Social service centers, multipurpose BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Polk County safety composite

Polk County scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Polk County: 6.7 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2024

Polk County's TCR rose 2.0 from 6.7 in 2018 to 8.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624190 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 165% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #14/16
  • PHOTO Marion County
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~155 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Marion County (0.0 TCR gap)

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Polk County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Polk County averages 6.3 TCR (165% of the Social service centers, multipurpose BLS benchmark).

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

Polk County TCR series: 2018=6.7 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=8.7 · BLS 3.8

Where Polk County falls in its industry

990 Social service centers, multip establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 16 Social service centers, multip employers in Iowa.

Polk County (155 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Polk County
Polk County (155 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Polk County has more employees than the Social service centers, multipurpose median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 8.7 5.0 14 0 0
2023 3.4 2.7 5 0 0
2018 6.7 5.3 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624190 · IA · Des Moines

990 Social service centers, multipurpose employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 525 employers in Des Moines, 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 Marion County 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rockwall County Helping Hands 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR HAWKEYE AREA COMM ACTION PROGRAM, INC 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR INDIAN BOUNDARY YMCA 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Quad Cities Branch 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lomont Molding LLC 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carroll - Main Store 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mission Cancer + Blood - IMMC 155 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 6,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines 4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Des Moines 3,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Methodist Hospital 3,495 FTE
NAT-TCR Lake Anna YMCA 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Miller 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 50094 - Capstone UNFI Gilroy 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Labatt San Antonio 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clovernook Healthcare LLC 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE OD Tile 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1110 N. Eastern Ave. 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE BSI 155 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, 2018. 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.