Social service centers, multipurpose · Iowa

Story County

Ames, IA · ~71 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Story County runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Social service centers, multipurpose workplace, earning a grade D.

Story County: 4.9 TCR = 130% of Social service centers, multipurpose BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Story County safety composite

Story County scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Story County: 4.8 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2024

Story County's TCR rose 1.8 from 4.8 in 2018 to 6.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624190 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 130% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #11/16
  • PHOTO Kings View WEC Los B…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kings View WEC Los Banos (0.0 TCR gap)

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Story County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Story County averages 4.9 TCR (130% of the Social service centers, multipurpose BLS benchmark).

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

Story County TCR series: 2018=4.8 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=6.6 · BLS 3.8

Where Story County falls in its industry

990 Social service centers, multip establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 16 Social service centers, multip employers in Iowa.

Story County (71 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 Story County
Story County (71 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Story County has fewer employees than the Social service centers, multipurpose median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 6.6 4.7 7 0 0
2023 3.4 0.0 2 0 0
2018 4.8 3.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624190 · IA · Ames

990 Social service centers, multipurpose employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 170 employers in Ames, 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 Kings View WEC Los Banos 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WNCSource 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR RCP 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foothills Gateway - Headquarters 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Maquoketa Valley Electric Cooperative 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peters Construction Corporation 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE T & K Roofing & Sheet Metal Company Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interstate Mechanical Corp 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - University Wide 13,316 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - On Campus 12,527 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center- Main Hospital 1,415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center 1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR A. J. Missert, Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Brockton 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Presidio Contracting, LLC 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Orizon Olathe 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Industrial Hardwood Products, Inc. 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Construction 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Great Oaks Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aloe Vera of America, Inc 71 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, 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.