General medical and surgical hospitals · Iowa

Van Buren County Hospital

Keosauqua, IA · ~209 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Van Buren County Hospital runs at 11% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade A.

Van Buren County Hospital: 0.8 TCR = 11% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Van Buren County Hospital safety composite

Van Buren County Hospital scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

84/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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

−1.6

2017→2024

Van Buren County Hospital injury rate improved

Van Buren County Hospital's TCR fell 1.6 from 1.6 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 11% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/160
  • PHOTO Loring Hospital
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~209 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Loring Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Van Buren County Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Van Buren County Hospital averages 0.8 TCR (11% 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

Van Buren County Hospital TCR series: 2017=1.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 7.5

Where Van Buren County Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 97% 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 #4 safest of 160 General medical and surgical h employers in Iowa.

Van Buren County Hospital (209 employees, TCR 0.8) 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 Van Buren County Hospital
Van Buren County Hospital (209 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Van Buren County Hospital has fewer employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a lower 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.6 0.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IA · Keosauqua

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 3 employers in Keosauqua, 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 Loring Hospital 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Virtua - 303 Lippincott 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Renown Health ORG 100 +110 +150 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Methodist Hospital Corporate (MCD-900) 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1625 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marzetti Frozen Pasta - Altoona 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office - 01 210 FTE
STATE-SIZE John Deere A and I Products 210 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hill Phoenix 316 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren County, Iowa 68 FTE
NAT-TCR Manchester motor freight.com 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sulzer Electro-Mechanical Services (US) Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rubber Plant 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Arthur Cole Painting Corporation, 39 Mason Street, Worcester MA 01610 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Berry Richmond-063 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE WCA Group, LLC Indianapolis 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE Derby Shoprite 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manchester Terminal 209 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, 2017. 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.