Discount Department Stores · Iowa

1901 - West Des Moines SW

West Des Moines, IA · ~351 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1901 - West Des Moines SW runs at 239% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

1901 - West Des Moines SW: 8.1 TCR = 239% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1901 - West Des Moines SW safety composite

1901 - West Des Moines SW scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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 8.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

Rising injury rate

1901 - West Des Moines SW: 1.9 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 17.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.42× in 2024

1901 - West Des Moines SW's TCR rose 2.1 from 1.9 in 2019 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 17.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · West Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 239% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #57/62
  • PHOTO 0873 - Ocala
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~351 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0873 - Ocala (0.0 TCR gap)

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1901 - West Des Moines SW in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1901 - West Des Moines SW averages 8.1 TCR (239% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1901 - West Des Moines SW TCR series: 2019=1.9 · 2021=17.5 · 2022=16.1 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.4

Where 1901 - West Des Moines SW falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #57 safest of 62 Discount Department Stores employers in Iowa.

1901 - West Des Moines SW (351 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 1901 - West Des Moines SW
1901 - West Des Moines SW (351 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1901 - West Des Moines SW has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 4.0 3.5 7 0 0
2023 1.1 1.1 2 0 0
2022 16.1 15.5 2 26 0
2021 17.5 13.4 7 23 0
2019 1.9 1.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · IA · West Des Moines

4,991 Discount Department Stores 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 0873 - Ocala 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0959 - Clarksville 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2281 - San Jose Central 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 1287 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Featherlite Trailers 351 FTE
STATE-SIZE Urbandale - Main Store 351 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allsteel Administration 351 FTE
STATE-SIZE URBANDALE IA 352 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 2281 - San Jose Central 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 0959 - Clarksville 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 0873 - Ocala 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid-Kansas Division 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE McDonough - 340 Westridge Parkway 351 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wieland Copper Products LLC 351 FTE
NAT-SIZE RPM Wood Finishes Group, Inc., Hudson, NC 351 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acushnet Rubber Co., Inc dba Precix 351 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, 2019. 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.