Nursing homes · Iowa

University Park Nursing and Rehab

Des Moines, IA · ~99 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

University Park Nursing and Rehab runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade C.

University Park Nursing and Rehab: 6.8 TCR = 104% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

University Park Nursing and Rehab safety composite

University Park Nursing and Rehab scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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%).

University Park Nursing and Rehab held a steady TCR band

University Park Nursing and Rehab's TCR held near 0.1 from 6.7 in 2016 to 6.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.7 · 2018=6.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 6.8 · 104% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #196/396
  • PHOTO Lenawee Medical Care…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lenawee Medical Care Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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University Park Nursing and Rehab in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows University Park Nursing and Rehab averages 6.8 TCR (104% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

University Park Nursing and Rehab TCR series: 2016=6.7 · 2018=6.8 · BLS 6.5

Where University Park Nursing and Rehab falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #196 safest of 396 Nursing homes employers in Iowa.

University Park Nursing and Rehab (99 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate University Park Nursing and Rehab
University Park Nursing and Rehab (99 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

University Park Nursing and Rehab has fewer employees than the Nursing homes median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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
2018 6.8 2.7 5 0 0
2016 6.7 5.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · IA · Des Moines

15,252 Nursing homes 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 Lenawee Medical Care Facility 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rose Senior Living-Clinton Township 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PALATKA CENTER FOR REHAB & HEALING 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heritage at Turner Park 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Guthrie Center Egg Farm 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grinnell, IA-FND 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Civil Contracting, Inc. 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE D. C. Taylor Co Cedar Rapids- Iowa 99 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 Heartland Health Care Center - Hampton 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kerrville Bus Company Inc. Grand Prairie Depot 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Hometown #736 (Valley City, ND) 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR MacDonald & Owen Luck 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE New Castle, PA 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alexandria (Gravel Avenue) 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bemis North America - Batavia 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scottsdale Villa Mirage 99 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: 2018, 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.