Warehouse clubs (i.e., food and general merchandise) · Iowa

0788 - West Des Moines Ia Whse

West Des Moines, IA · ~257 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0788 - West Des Moines Ia Whse runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Warehouse clubs (i.e., food and general merchandise) workplace, earning a grade B.

0788 - West Des Moines Ia Whse: 2.7 TCR = 79% of Warehouse clubs (i.e., food and general merchandise) BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0788 - West Des Moines Ia Whse safety composite

0788 - West Des Moines Ia Whse scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

0788 - West Des Moines Ia Whse: 3.0 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.03× in 2022

0788 - West Des Moines Ia Whse's TCR rose 2.5 from 3.0 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 455211 · West Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.7 · 79% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK P83
  • PHOTO 183 - Elgin IL
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~257 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 183 - Elgin IL (0.0 TCR gap)

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0788 - West Des Moines Ia Whse in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0788 - West Des Moines Ia Whse averages 2.7 TCR (79% of the Warehouse clubs (i.e., food and general merchandise) BLS benchmark).

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

0788 - West Des Moines Ia Whse TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=4.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=1 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=5.5 · BLS 3.4

Where 0788 - West Des Moines Ia Whse falls in its industry

1,491 Warehouse clubs (i.e., food an establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
0788 - West Des Moines Ia Whse (257 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 260 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 100200300400500600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate 0788 - West Des Moines Ia Whse
0788 - West Des Moines Ia Whse (257 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 260 employees and a TCR of 4.8

0788 - West Des Moines Ia Whse has fewer employees than the Warehouse clubs (i.e., food and general median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2022 5.5 5.5 12 0 0
2021 2.5 2.0 5 0 0
2020 1.0 0.0 2 0 0
2019 2.6 2.1 5 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.4 3.3 8 0 0
2016 3.0 1.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

455211 · IA · West Des Moines

1,491 Warehouse clubs (i.e., food and general merchandise) 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 183 - Elgin IL 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 283 - Oak Creek 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 25320033 FAIRFAX, VA 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 25320131 WESTMINSTER, MD 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Donaldson Company 257 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Falls 256 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hormel Food 258 FTE
STATE-SIZE IA - Ottumwa - 14955 Truman St - The American Bottling Company 258 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 0445 - Yorba Linda Ca Whse 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Fellowes, Inc. Aurora 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR JFK-SCS 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Mgsu Cochran Dining Hall 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1121 - Sun Prairie Wi Whse 257 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0668 - Arlington Tx Whse 257 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZNHV 257 FTE
NAT-SIZE Comprehensive Community Health Centers 257 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.