Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers · Iowa

43281i - Des Moines Pec

Grimes, IA · ~82 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

43281i - Des Moines Pec runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

43281i - Des Moines Pec: 2.5 TCR = 113% of Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

43281i - Des Moines Pec safety composite

43281i - Des Moines Pec scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−2.5

2016→2021

43281i - Des Moines Pec injury rate improved

43281i - Des Moines Pec's TCR fell 2.5 from 2.5 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.5 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=1.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424450 · Grimes, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 113% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO STERLING VA
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: STERLING VA (0.0 TCR gap)

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43281i - Des Moines Pec in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 43281i - Des Moines Pec averages 2.5 TCR (113% of the Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

43281i - Des Moines Pec TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=1 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.2

Where 43281i - Des Moines Pec falls in its industry

773 Confectionery Merchant Wholesa establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 8 Confectionery Merchant Wholesa employers in Iowa.

43281i - Des Moines Pec (82 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate 43281i - Des Moines Pec
43281i - Des Moines Pec (82 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8

43281i - Des Moines Pec has more employees than the Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2019 1.9 1.0 2 0 0
2018 3.1 1.0 3 0 0
2017 6.3 6.3 5 0 0
2016 2.5 1.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424450 · IA · Grimes

773 Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 65 employers in Grimes, 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 STERLING VA 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CC 49993 TUCSON FAC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 49833 - MANTECA FAC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MEDFORD OR BINS EmpWorkCtrCd 30001463 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eagle Grove 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Algona ALG1 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Des Moines Head Office 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Des Moines 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR National Carwash Solutions 698 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Office 421 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grimes - Main Store 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5748 315 FTE
NAT-TCR West Memphis AR Terminal - DOT 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR North Salt Lake Terminal - DOT 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR USCS- Ft. Worth, TX 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Aurora E Sch Dis #131-Spvn 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 44161c - Birmingham Dc 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE MMK Brea 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE MMK Signal Hill 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beam LLC 82 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: 2021, 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.