Home Health Care · Iowa

West Des Moines Branch

West Des Moines, IA · ~69 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Des Moines Branch runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Home Health Care workplace, earning a grade C.

West Des Moines Branch: 5.2 TCR = 100% of Home Health Care BLS 5.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Des Moines Branch safety composite

West Des Moines Branch scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

West Des Moines Branch: 4.9 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

West Des Moines Branch's TCR rose 0.5 from 4.9 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · West Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.2 · 100% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #18/39
  • PHOTO NJ South Home Care-R…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NJ South Home Care-Runnemede (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Des Moines Branch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Des Moines Branch averages 5.2 TCR (100% of the Home Health Care BLS benchmark).

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

West Des Moines Branch TCR series: 2016=4.9 · 2017=5.5 · BLS 5.2

Where West Des Moines Branch falls in its industry

3,635 Home Health Care establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 39 Home Health Care employers in Iowa.

West Des Moines Branch (69 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate West Des Moines Branch
West Des Moines Branch (69 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

West Des Moines Branch has fewer employees than the Home Health Care median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2017 5.5 0.0 0 2 0
2016 4.9 0.0 0 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · IA · West Des Moines

3,635 Home Health Care employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 160 employers in West 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 NJ South Home Care-Runnemede 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CS Cape 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR PXP 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hospice Lynchburg 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Red Oak) 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Linn County Rural Electric Cooperative 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE 175 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Life Science - Council Bluffs 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hy-Vee, Inc. 73,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wright Tree Service, Inc 4,019 FTE
CITY-NEAR WDMCS 1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR FBL Financial Group Inc., Corporate Headquarters 1,123 FTE
NAT-TCR N and R of North Columbia LLC 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Springdale Center (Arsdl) 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Rosewood Care Center of Elgin 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Wholesale Buildng Products, LLC 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Comfort 1 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Independence LLC 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of St James LLC 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE 49751p - Colorado Spings Dc 69 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.