Other Airport Operations · Iowa

00001247 Dsm - 247 Des Moines Intl Airport

Des Monies, IA · ~28 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

00001247 Dsm - 247 Des Moines Intl Airport runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Airport Operations workplace, earning a grade D.

00001247 Dsm - 247 Des Moines Intl Airport: 6.3 TCR = 139% of Other Airport Operations BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

00001247 Dsm - 247 Des Moines Intl Airport safety composite

00001247 Dsm - 247 Des Moines Intl Airport scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

00001247 Dsm - 247 Des Moines Intl Airport held a steady TCR band

00001247 Dsm - 247 Des Moines Intl Airport's TCR held near 0.1 from 6.2 in 2023 to 6.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.2 · 2024=6.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Des Monies, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 139% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #12/16
  • PHOTO 4765-DFWPW9672
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4765-DFWPW9672 (0.0 TCR gap)

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00001247 Dsm - 247 Des Moines Intl Airport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 00001247 Dsm - 247 Des Moines Intl Airport averages 6.3 TCR (139% of the Other Airport Operations BLS benchmark).

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

00001247 Dsm - 247 Des Moines Intl Airport TCR series: 2023=6.2 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 4.5

Where 00001247 Dsm - 247 Des Moines Intl Airport falls in its industry

1,555 Other Airport Operations establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 16 Other Airport Operations employers in Iowa.

00001247 Dsm - 247 Des Moines Intl Airport (28 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate 00001247 Dsm - 247 Des Moines Intl Airport
00001247 Dsm - 247 Des Moines Intl Airport (28 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

00001247 Dsm - 247 Des Moines Intl Airport has fewer employees than the Other Airport Operations median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 6.3 3.1 2 0 0
2023 6.2 3.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · IA · Des Monies

1,555 Other Airport Operations employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 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 4765-DFWPW9672 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR LIH Airport 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DENPI0715 DEN - RAMP PAX 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6957-SCE 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE IOWA ADMIN 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pocahontas Warehouse 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE WCT Crystal Lake 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE BHE - Council Bluff W Broadway (IA001) 28 FTE
NAT-TCR Imperial CFS, Inc 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR El Centro 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Biomass One 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Trenton Group Inc. d/b/a Hanover Concrete Co. 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Law Motor Freight, Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maricopa Plant 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cowin Equipment Company of Montgomery 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jointa Lime Company Inc. 28 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.