General medical and surgical hospitals · Iowa

Spencer Municipal Hospital

Spencer, IA · ~515 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Spencer Municipal Hospital runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

Spencer Municipal Hospital: 5.4 TCR = 72% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spencer Municipal Hospital safety composite

Spencer Municipal Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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 5.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Spencer Municipal Hospital: 5.2 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.34× in 2022

Spencer Municipal Hospital's TCR rose 0.4 from 5.2 in 2021 to 5.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Spencer, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 5.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #106/160
  • PHOTO Ashley Regional Medi…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~515 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ashley Regional Medical Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Spencer Municipal Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spencer Municipal Hospital averages 5.4 TCR (72% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

Spencer Municipal Hospital TCR series: 2021=5.2 · 2022=5.5 · BLS 7.5

Where Spencer Municipal Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #106 safest of 160 General medical and surgical h employers in Iowa.

Spencer Municipal Hospital (515 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Spencer Municipal Hospital
Spencer Municipal Hospital (515 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Spencer Municipal Hospital has more employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2022 5.5 1.9 24 0 0
2021 5.2 0.9 24 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IA · Spencer

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 44 employers in Spencer, 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 Ashley Regional Medical Center 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SIMPSONVILLE MEDICAL CAMPUS 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MERCY HOSPITAL SPRINGFIELD 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE BAE Systems Electronic Systems CIA01 515 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spencer Hospital 516 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mercy Medical Center-North Campus-MHS-IA/NE 513 FTE
STATE-SIZE Office-West Des Moines 518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arnold Motor Supply 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2714 221 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2714 213 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spencer - Main Store 169 FTE
NAT-TCR Bodycote Thermal Processing, Inc. - Fort Wayne 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Max Coating, Inc. Atlanta 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Morries 394 Hyundai 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tops #432 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Homerville 515 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clallam County 515 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbia Campus School 515 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbia Community Office 515 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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.