Transportation · Iowa

040-DSM

Altoona, IA · ~54 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

040-DSM runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Transportation workplace, earning a grade C.

040-DSM: 5.1 TCR = 113% of Transportation BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

040-DSM safety composite

040-DSM scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

040-DSM: 0.0 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 14.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.84× in 2024

040-DSM's TCR rose 9.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 9.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 14.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Altoona, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.1 · 113% of ind

  • DART 9.4 DART
  • RANK #19/50
  • PHOTO Richmond RMD
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Richmond RMD (0.0 TCR gap)

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040-DSM in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 040-DSM averages 5.1 TCR (113% of the Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

040-DSM TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=6.2 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=4.5 · 2022=14.2 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=9.4 · BLS 4.5

Where 040-DSM falls in its industry

3,020 Transportation establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 50 Transportation employers in Iowa.

040-DSM (54 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 040-DSM
040-DSM (54 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

040-DSM has fewer employees than the Transportation median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 9.4 9.4 4 0 0
2023 6.3 4.2 3 0 0
2022 14.2 12.2 7 0 0
2020 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 6.2 6.2 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · IA · Altoona

3,020 Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 52 employers in Altoona, 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 Richmond RMD 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 026-ROC 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anaheim CA FXFE-ANH 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Belmont NH FXFE-BNH 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Daybreak Foods Inc. - Graettinger 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Dodge Service Center 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Creek Plant 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bettendorf Service Center 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casion 1,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adventureland Resort 1,040 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino, Inc. 965 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Meadows Racetrack, Casino & Hotel 877 FTE
NAT-TCR 026-ROC 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Branch 236 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR BHJ - St. Joseph 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 5124 Fresenius Medical Care 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 042-LKN 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Selah 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE TWS Fabricators, Inc 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE H-S Precision, Inc. 54 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.