Mail and Parcel Delivery · Iowa

182414-Des Moines Ia P&Dc

Des Moines, IA · ~654 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

182414-Des Moines Ia P&Dc runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Mail and Parcel Delivery workplace, earning a grade C.

182414-Des Moines Ia P&Dc: 5.3 TCR = 117% of Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

182414-Des Moines Ia P&Dc safety composite

182414-Des Moines Ia P&Dc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

182414-Des Moines Ia P&Dc: 3.3 → 12.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.19× in 2022

182414-Des Moines Ia P&Dc's TCR rose 9.5 from 3.3 in 2017 to 12.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 491110 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.3 · 117% of ind

  • DART 11.5 DART
  • RANK #31/157
  • PHOTO MIDWAY_1466070
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 128 inj
  • SIZE ~654 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MIDWAY_1466070 (0.0 TCR gap)

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182414-Des Moines Ia P&Dc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 182414-Des Moines Ia P&Dc averages 5.3 TCR (117% of the Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS benchmark).

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

182414-Des Moines Ia P&Dc TCR series: 2017=3.3 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=12.8 · BLS 4.5

Where 182414-Des Moines Ia P&Dc falls in its industry

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 157 Mail and Parcel Delivery employers in Iowa.

182414-Des Moines Ia P&Dc (654 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 182414-Des Moines Ia P&Dc
182414-Des Moines Ia P&Dc (654 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8

182414-Des Moines Ia P&Dc has more employees than the Mail and Parcel Delivery median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.8. 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 12.8 11.5 23 46 0
2021 2.3 2.1 13 0 0
2020 3.2 2.7 20 0 0
2019 4.4 3.9 24 2 0
2018 5.5 4.4 30 4 1
2017 3.3 2.7 18 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

491110 · IA · Des Moines

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery 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 MIDWAY_1466070 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR WINTER GARDEN_1388040 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ALAMEDA CARRIER ANNEX_1440516 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR EVERGLADES BR_1432922 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pella Corporation - Carroll Operations 653 FTE
STATE-SIZE Martin Bros Distribution Co., Inc. 652 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smithfield Sioux city 651 FTE
STATE-SIZE Storm Lake Turkey Plant 649 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 110978-Bra-Palma Sola Br 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 117700-Port Orange 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 497820-Sandy Po 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 360680-Belmont Po 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wegmans PA Distribution RSC 654 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glen Allen Plant 654 FTE
NAT-SIZE NEA Baptist Clinic Charitable Foundation 654 FTE
NAT-SIZE SAO : LSM - Latrobe 654 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.