Discount Department Stores · Iowa

0069 - Valley West

West Des Moines, IA · ~184 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0069 - Valley West runs at 302% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

0069 - Valley West: 10.3 TCR = 302% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0069 - Valley West safety composite

0069 - Valley West scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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%).

TCR Δ

−20.7

2022→2024

0069 - Valley West injury rate improved

0069 - Valley West's TCR fell 20.7 from 21.9 in 2022 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 21.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=21.9 · 2023=7.8 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · West Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 302% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #61/62
  • PHOTO 2006 - Staten Island
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~184 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2006 - Staten Island (0.0 TCR gap)

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0069 - Valley West in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0069 - Valley West averages 10.3 TCR (302% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

0069 - Valley West TCR series: 2022=21.9 · 2023=7.8 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.4

Where 0069 - Valley West falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #61 safest of 62 Discount Department Stores employers in Iowa.

0069 - Valley West (184 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 0069 - Valley West
0069 - Valley West (184 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

0069 - Valley West has more employees than the Discount Department Stores 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
2024 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2023 7.8 4.5 4 3 0
2022 21.9 20.8 2 18 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · IA · West Des Moines

4,991 Discount Department Stores 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 2006 - Staten Island 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0249 - Westminster 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1519 - Clermont 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2329 - Granada Hills 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE IOWA PLAINS SIGNING INC 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smithfield Orange City (PPH) Fresh 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE FBG Service Corporation Cedar Rapids 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE FLOYD COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER 184 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 Atmosphere Annealing Mt Hope 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Broder Bros Co dba Primeline 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 5104 - NC Forsyth County 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR West Gate Village, LLC 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0096 - Austin South Lamar 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1417 - Blackstone and Bullard 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kinley Construction Group 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cintas Loc 101 184 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, 2022. 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.