Not required · Iowa

Polk County Jail

Des Moines, IA · ~290 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.7
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Polk County Jail runs at 414% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Not required workplace, earning a grade F.

Polk County Jail: 15.7 TCR = 414% of Not required BLS 3.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Polk County Jail safety composite

Polk County Jail scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

TCR Δ

−17.1

2018→2021

Polk County Jail injury rate improved

Polk County Jail's TCR fell 17.1 from 17.1 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 31.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=17.1 · 2019=14.7 · 2020=31.2 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621111 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 15.7 · 414% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #76/77
  • PHOTO Bear Canyon Rehabili…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 112 inj
  • SIZE ~290 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bear Canyon Rehabilitation Center (0.1 TCR gap)

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Polk County Jail in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Polk County Jail averages 15.7 TCR (414% of the Not required BLS benchmark).

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

Polk County Jail TCR series: 2018=17.1 · 2019=14.7 · 2020=31.2 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.8

Where Polk County Jail falls in its industry

2,836 Not required establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #76 safest of 77 Not required employers in Iowa.

Polk County Jail (290 employees, TCR 15.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 Polk County Jail
Polk County Jail (290 employees, TCR 15.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Polk County Jail has more employees than the Not required median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 31.2 23.1 24 69 0
2019 14.7 3.5 42 0 0
2018 17.1 11.5 46 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621111 · IA · Des Moines

2,836 Not required 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 Bear Canyon Rehabilitation Center 15.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-50542) 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Katahdin Valley Health Center, Houlton 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mt Pleasant Dermatology LLC 16.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dallas County, Iowa 290 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2002-Williamsburg, IA (Monsanto Co.) 291 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Office 291 FTE
STATE-SIZE Upper Iowa Beef LLC 289 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 Salem-Lancaster #018 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Aspen Leaf Landscape Maintenance Inc 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR River Valley 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Catalina Springs Memory Care, LLC 15.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Teleflex Vascular Solutions 6464 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indiana University Health Tipton Hospital 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Valley Farms 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6795-86042B0699 290 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, 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.