Heavy machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services · Iowa

14 Des Moines, IA

Des Moines, IA · ~34 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

14 Des Moines, IA runs at 293% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Heavy machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade F.

14 Des Moines, IA: 6.2 TCR = 293% of Heavy machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services BLS 2.1 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

14 Des Moines, IA safety composite

14 Des Moines, IA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.6

2017→2024

14 Des Moines, IA injury rate improved

14 Des Moines, IA's TCR fell 6.6 from 9.0 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 17.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.0 · 2018=17.4 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=11.4 · 2023=5.0 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.2 · 293% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #28/31
  • PHOTO CSTK KC
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CSTK KC (0.0 TCR gap)

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14 Des Moines, IA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 14 Des Moines, IA averages 6.2 TCR (293% of the Heavy machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

14 Des Moines, IA TCR series: 2017=9 · 2018=17.4 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=11.4 · 2023=5 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 2.1

Where 14 Des Moines, IA falls in its industry

2,560 Heavy machinery and equipment establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 31 Heavy machinery and equipment employers in Iowa.

14 Des Moines, IA (34 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate 14 Des Moines, IA
14 Des Moines, IA (34 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

14 Des Moines, IA has fewer employees than the Heavy machinery and equipment repair and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2023 5.0 0.0 2 0 0
2022 11.4 11.4 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2018 17.4 13.1 4 0 0
2017 9.0 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · IA · Des Moines

2,560 Heavy machinery and equipment repair and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 525 employers in 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 CSTK KC 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ramsay-Bliese Corp dba Leete Generators 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Badger Electric Motor, Division of EMS Industrial, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eau Claire- 03 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE BP Land, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2511-Beaman, IA 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belle Plaine 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE KR Farm Labor Services, LLC 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 6,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines 4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Des Moines 3,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Methodist Hospital 3,495 FTE
NAT-TCR Txlon - Longview 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale East Mesa 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Homestead 10207 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Merit Aluminum Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rock Engineered Machinery Co, INC 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Addison Place 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waimp - Washington Import 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mtwol - Wolf Point 34 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.