Freight Trucking LTL · Iowa

495 Oe Sales Des Moines

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Urbandale, IA · ~270 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.7
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

495 Oe Sales Des Moines runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Freight Trucking LTL workplace, earning a grade A.

495 Oe Sales Des Moines: 1.7 TCR = 38% of Freight Trucking LTL BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

495 Oe Sales Des Moines safety composite

495 Oe Sales Des Moines scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 52% 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

495 Oe Sales Des Moines: 0.8 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.22× in 2018

495 Oe Sales Des Moines's TCR rose 1.9 from 0.8 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Urbandale, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.7 · 38% of ind

DART 0.4 DART
RANK #5/50
PHOTO Brothers Express, Inc
BOOK 2y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~270 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brothers Express, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lemore Transpo

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What this shows 495 Oe Sales Des Moines averages 1.7 TCR (38% of the Freight Trucking LTL BLS benchmark).

495 Oe Sales Des Moines TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2018=2.7 · BLS 4.5

Where 495 Oe Sales Des Moines falls in its industry

3,020 Freight Trucking LTL establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 50 Freight Trucking LTL employers in Iowa.

495 Oe Sales Des Moines (270 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

495 Oe Sales Des Moines has more employees than the Freight Trucking LTL median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2018	2.7	0.4	6	1	0
2016	0.8	0.0	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · IA · Urbandale

3,020 Freight Trucking LTL employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 104 employers in Urbandale, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Brothers Express, Inc	FORT WAYNE, IN	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	La Crosse	WEST SALEM, WI	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	012-MAN	MANSFIELD, OH	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Lemore Transportation Inc	CONCORD, CA	1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	6728-00030023-29	EAGLE GROVE	270 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Clysar, LLC	CAMANCHE	270 FTE
STATE-SIZE	0533 - Davenport	DAVENPORT	270 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Good Shepherd Health Center, Inc.	MASON CITY	270 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ISG Urbandale	Urbandale	786 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Quality Manufacturing Corporation	Urbandale	612 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mosaic Urbandale/Nevada	Urbandale	363 FTE
CITY-NEAR	URBANDALE IA	Urbandale	352 FTE
NAT-TCR	Conair East Windsor New Jersey	East Windsor, NJ	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Greenville Folding	Greenville, TX	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Buffalo Location	Buffalo, NY	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Southern Chrysler Jeep	Chesapeake, VA	1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Mary Wade	New Haven, CT	270 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Western trailers	Boise, ID	270 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Pacesetters, Inc.	Algood, TN	270 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Spectrum America SCS 999	Depere, WI	270 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.