Hospitals, specialty (except psychiatric, substance abuse) · Iowa

Select Specialty Hospital - Des Moines, Inc

Des Moines, IA · ~103 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Select Specialty Hospital - Des Moines, Inc runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hospitals, specialty (except psychiatric, substance abuse) workplace, earning a grade D.

Select Specialty Hospital - Des Moines, Inc: 7.2 TCR = 188% of Hospitals, specialty (except psychiatric, substance abuse) BLS 3.8 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Select Specialty Hospital - Des Moines, Inc safety composite

Select Specialty Hospital - Des Moines, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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%).

Select Specialty Hospital - Des Moines, Inc held a steady TCR band

Select Specialty Hospital - Des Moines, Inc's TCR held near 0.1 from 4.4 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 15.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.4 · 2017=15.8 · 2018=13.9 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=7.6 · 2021=5.0 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622310 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.2 · 188% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO Acuity Hospital of N…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Acuity Hospital of New Jersey, L.L.C. (d/b/a Select Specialty Hospital - Atlantic City) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Select Specialty Hospital - Des Moines, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Select Specialty Hospital - Des Moines, Inc averages 7.2 TCR (188% of the Hospitals, specialty (except psychiatric, substance abuse) BLS benchmark).

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

Select Specialty Hospital - Des Moines, Inc TCR series: 2016=4.4 · 2017=15.8 · 2018=13.9 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=7.6 · 2021=5 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 3.8

Where Select Specialty Hospital - Des Moines, Inc falls in its industry

1,390 Hospitals, specialty (except p establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 7 Hospitals, specialty (except p employers in Iowa.

Select Specialty Hospital - Des Moines, Inc (103 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 Select Specialty Hospital - Des Moines, Inc
Select Specialty Hospital - Des Moines, Inc (103 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Select Specialty Hospital - Des Moines, Inc has fewer employees than the Hospitals, specialty (except psychiatric median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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 4.3 2.8 3 0 0
2023 4.5 1.5 3 0 0
2022 4.1 1.4 3 0 0
2021 5.0 3.7 4 0 0
2020 7.6 3.3 7 0 0
2019 4.9 3.7 4 0 0
2018 13.9 3.8 11 0 0
2017 15.8 6.3 10 0 0
2016 4.4 2.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622310 · IA · Des Moines

1,390 Hospitals, specialty (except psychiatric, substance abuse) 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 Acuity Hospital of New Jersey, L.L.C. (d/b/a Select Specialty Hospital - Atlantic City) 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Select Specialty Hospital - Battle Creek 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Riverside Rehabilitation Hospital 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Select Physical Therapy Texas (15123 BIR - Main - OP Hub) 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Boone, IA 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walnut Ridge Service Center 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fredericksburg Plant 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE IDT Coralville 2470 103 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 Electrical Associates 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Manitowoc 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Northfield Hospital + Clinics- Farmington Clinic 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Wadena 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Select Specialty Hospital - Panama City, Inc 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Regency Hospital Company of Meridian, LLC 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Information Technology 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE 304A 103 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.