Employer · Iowa

0069 - West Des Moines

West Des Moines, IA · ~206 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0069 - West Des Moines runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

0069 - West Des Moines: 4.6 TCR = 136% of industry BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0069 - West Des Moines safety composite

0069 - West Des Moines scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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 4.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

−3.0

2019→2021

0069 - West Des Moines injury rate improved

0069 - West Des Moines's TCR fell 3.0 from 6.1 in 2019 to 3.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.1 · 2021=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · West Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 136% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #35/47
  • PHOTO 1235 - Lacey Township
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~206 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1235 - Lacey Township (0.0 TCR gap)

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0069 - West Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0069 - West Des Moines averages 4.6 TCR (136% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

0069 - West Des Moines TCR series: 2019=6.1 · 2021=3.1 · BLS 3.4

Where 0069 - West Des Moines falls in its industry

2,917 industry establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 47 industry employers in Iowa.

0069 - West Des Moines (206 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 0069 - West Des Moines
0069 - West Des Moines (206 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

0069 - West Des Moines has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2021 3.1 2.1 1 2 0
2019 6.1 5.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · IA · West Des Moines

2,917 industry 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 1235 - Lacey Township 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3238 - Gainesville University 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 71535 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 71013 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE ALTOONA IA - 3153 206 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1435 206 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lucas County Health Center 206 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Newton Iowa 206 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 Paul Michels and Sons, Inc 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR FRT - Laredo 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR International Knife and Saw, Inc, 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Early LIFE Center 9 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Buckingham Care & Rehabilitation 206 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pittman's Tree & Landscaping, LLC 206 FTE
NAT-SIZE LW Engineering Plant 1 206 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hitachi Cable America-NH 206 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: 2021, 2019. 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.