General medical and surgical hospitals · Iowa

St. Luke's Methodist Hospital

Cedar Rapids, IA · ~2,949 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

St. Luke's Methodist Hospital runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade C.

St. Luke's Methodist Hospital: 8.1 TCR = 108% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

St. Luke's Methodist Hospital safety composite

St. Luke's Methodist Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2016→2017

St. Luke's Methodist Hospital injury rate improved

St. Luke's Methodist Hospital's TCR fell 0.5 from 8.3 in 2016 to 7.8 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.3 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.3 · 2017=7.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Cedar Rapids, IA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 8.1 · 108% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #146/160
  • PHOTO St. Mary's Hospital …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 332 inj
  • SIZE ~2,949 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: St. Mary's Hospital Superior (0.0 TCR gap)

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St. Luke's Methodist Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows St. Luke's Methodist Hospital averages 8.1 TCR (108% 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

St. Luke's Methodist Hospital TCR series: 2016=8.3 · 2017=7.8 · BLS 7.5

Where St. Luke's Methodist Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #146 safest of 160 General medical and surgical h employers in Iowa.

St. Luke's Methodist Hospital (2,949 employees, TCR 8.1) 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 St. Luke's Methodist Hospital
St. Luke's Methodist Hospital (2,949 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

St. Luke's Methodist 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
2017 7.8 3.3 160 0 0
2016 8.3 4.2 172 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IA · Cedar Rapids

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 466 employers in Cedar Rapids, 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 St. Mary's Hospital Superior 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Vincent's Medical Center - Westport Campus 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sutter Roseville Medical Center (110-5001) 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Coos Hospital & Health Center 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Whirlpool 2,940 FTE
STATE-SIZE Des Moines Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE 2,985 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waterloo Pork Plant 2,801 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vermeer Corporation - Pella 3,187 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids IA 400 NE) 6,179 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Collins - Cedar Rapids C Ave 6,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR CRST EXPEDITED INC 3,475 FTE
CITY-NEAR UnityPoint Health-St Luke's Hospital 2,610 FTE
NAT-TCR Sturtevant/Lakeside Center (Wistu) 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston (Canino) Hub (Txcan) 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Floyd County Road Department 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tuesday Morning Phoenix DC 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0070-CHS NorthEast 2,949 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DEN4 2,948 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - FTW6 2,948 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Walt Disney Company-Burbank 2,946 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: 2017, 2016. 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.