Casino hotels · Iowa

Prairie Meadows Racetrack, Casino & Hotel

Altoona, IA · ~877 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Prairie Meadows Racetrack, Casino & Hotel runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Casino hotels workplace, earning a grade D.

Prairie Meadows Racetrack, Casino & Hotel: 4.8 TCR = 158% of Casino hotels BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Prairie Meadows Racetrack, Casino & Hotel safety composite

Prairie Meadows Racetrack, Casino & Hotel scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Prairie Meadows Racetrack, Casino & Hotel held a steady TCR band

Prairie Meadows Racetrack, Casino & Hotel's TCR held near 0.3 from 4.6 in 2023 to 4.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.6 · 2024=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 721120 · Altoona, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 158% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #10/10
  • PHOTO Gold Dust West Elko
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 67 inj
  • SIZE ~877 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gold Dust West Elko (0.0 TCR gap)

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Prairie Meadows Racetrack, Casino & Hotel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Prairie Meadows Racetrack, Casino & Hotel averages 4.8 TCR (158% of the Casino hotels BLS benchmark).

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

Prairie Meadows Racetrack, Casino & Hotel TCR series: 2023=4.6 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 3.0

Where Prairie Meadows Racetrack, Casino & Hotel falls in its industry

381 Casino hotels establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 10 Casino hotels employers in Iowa.

Prairie Meadows Racetrack, Casino & Hotel (877 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 725 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 02,0004,0006,0008,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Prairie Meadows Racetrack, Casino & Hotel
Prairie Meadows Racetrack, Casino & Hotel (877 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 725 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Prairie Meadows Racetrack, Casino & Hotel has more employees than the Casino hotels median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 4.9 4.0 34 2 0
2023 4.6 3.7 33 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

721120 · IA · Altoona

381 Casino hotels employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 52 employers in Altoona, 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 Gold Dust West Elko 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Win-River Resort and Casino 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Magnolia Bluffs Casino Hotel 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MGM National Harbor 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE DES MOINES (IADES) 878 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carleton Life Support Systems 874 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cobham Mission Systems Davenport LSS INC 870 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forest City 866 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casion 1,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adventureland Resort 1,040 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino, Inc. 965 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adventure Lands of America, Inc. 526 FTE
NAT-TCR Westside Garden Plaza 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR STS Ranch LLC 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR JDS Industries 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gottlieb Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE LGI Homes Corporate, LLC 877 FTE
NAT-SIZE Horseshoe Indianapolis 877 FTE
NAT-SIZE Total Facility Solutions 877 FTE
NAT-SIZE Textron Aviation- CSC Wichita 877 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.