Employer · Iowa

1253 - West Des Moines

West Des Moines, IA · ~96 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1253 - West Des Moines runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

1253 - West Des Moines: 2.4 TCR = 72% of industry BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1253 - West Des Moines safety composite

1253 - West Des Moines scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

−2.2

2016→2022

1253 - West Des Moines injury rate improved

1253 - West Des Moines's TCR fell 2.2 from 2.2 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.2 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=5.8 · 2020=2.4 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · West Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #19/47
  • PHOTO 71636
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 71636 (0.0 TCR gap)

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1253 - West Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1253 - West Des Moines averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

1253 - West Des Moines TCR series: 2016=2.2 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=5.8 · 2020=2.4 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.4

Where 1253 - West Des Moines falls in its industry

2,917 industry establishments

Safer than 66% 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 #19 safest of 47 industry employers in Iowa.

1253 - West Des Moines (96 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 1253 - West Des Moines
1253 - West Des Moines (96 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

1253 - West Des Moines has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2019 5.8 1.9 3 0 0
2018 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2017 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2016 2.2 0.0 1 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 71636 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 71176 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 71735 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 71727 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waterloo Service Center 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7123_18981 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Architectural Wall Systems, LLC 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE US093: Indianapolis 331 - SG 96 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 1068 - Monaca 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 1467 - Woodstock-IL 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 1008 - New Philadelphia 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cardiology Associates of Savannah 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1264 - Milton 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1316 - Royal Palm Beach 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1190 - Elizabethtown 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1174 - Saratoga Springs 96 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, 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.