General medical and surgical hospitals · Iowa

West Des Moines Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE

West Des Moines, IA · ~410 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Des Moines Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade C.

West Des Moines Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE: 6.4 TCR = 85% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Des Moines Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE safety composite

West Des Moines Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Rising injury rate

West Des Moines Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE: 4.2 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.23× in 2024

West Des Moines Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE's TCR rose 4.3 from 4.2 in 2023 to 8.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · West Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 6.4 · 85% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #127/160
  • PHOTO Taylor Regional Hosp…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~410 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Taylor Regional Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Des Moines Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Des Moines Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE averages 6.4 TCR (85% 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

West Des Moines Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE TCR series: 2023=4.2 · 2024=8.6 · BLS 7.5

Where West Des Moines Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #127 safest of 160 General medical and surgical h employers in Iowa.

West Des Moines Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE (410 employees, TCR 6.4) 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 West Des Moines Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE
West Des Moines Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE (410 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

West Des Moines Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE has fewer employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a higher 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 8.6 1.5 29 0 0
2023 4.2 0.5 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IA · West Des Moines

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals 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 Taylor Regional Hospital 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MH Blue Ridge Medical Center, LLLP 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southwell Medical Center 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holyoke Medical Center 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 753 410 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 3762 410 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marsden Bldg Maintenance - Iowa 410 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diamond Jo Casino NorthWood 410 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 Formel Industries, Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sonata Vero Beach 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Town of Garner 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Salem Republic Rubber Company LLC 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE VA - Windsor - 25400 Old Mill Rd - Keurig Green Mountain Inc 410 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Foods Boston 410 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jackson MS 410 FTE
NAT-SIZE Njldh - Lyndhurst 410 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. 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.