Assisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities · Iowa

The Waterford at Ames

Ames, IA · ~30 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.4
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Waterford at Ames runs at 484% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Assisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade F.

The Waterford at Ames: 18.4 TCR = 484% of Assisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities BLS 3.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Waterford at Ames safety composite

The Waterford at Ames scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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%).

Rising injury rate

The Waterford at Ames: 15.6 → 28.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 28.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2019

The Waterford at Ames's TCR rose 13.1 from 15.6 in 2016 to 28.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623311 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.4 · 484% of ind

  • DART 14.4 DART
  • RANK #105/121
  • PHOTO Bickford of Crystal …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bickford of Crystal Lake (0.1 TCR gap)

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The Waterford at Ames in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Waterford at Ames averages 18.4 TCR (484% of the Assisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities BLS benchmark).

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

The Waterford at Ames TCR series: 2016=15.6 · 2017=18.4 · 2018=10.9 · 2019=28.7 · BLS 3.8

Where The Waterford at Ames falls in its industry

4,127 Assisted-living facilities wit establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #105 safest of 121 Assisted-living facilities wit employers in Iowa.

The Waterford at Ames (30 employees, TCR 18.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 6.9 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate The Waterford at Ames
The Waterford at Ames (30 employees, TCR 18.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 6.9

The Waterford at Ames has fewer employees than the Assisted-living facilities with on-site median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.9. 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
2019 28.7 14.4 4 0 0
2018 10.9 10.9 2 0 0
2017 18.4 0.0 4 0 0
2016 15.6 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623311 · IA · Ames

4,127 Assisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities 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 Bickford of Crystal Lake 18.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Regent At Burnsville 18.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Canopy at Warner Robins 18.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodbury Estates 18.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Mount Pleasant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Laborers 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Keokuk Plant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kading Construction Company Inc 30 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 Fre 04 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hs Ems - Chambersburg 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Roby Services, Inc. 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Champaign 18.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crosswood Oaks 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE C082 Indianapolis ROC 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rollin'R Enterprises, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Siri Produce Inc. (Jack) 30 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: 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.