Lawn Care · Iowa

5755 - Des Moines

Ankeny, IA · ~51 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5755 - Des Moines runs at 303% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Lawn Care workplace, earning a grade F.

5755 - Des Moines: 13.6 TCR = 303% of Lawn Care BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5755 - Des Moines safety composite

5755 - Des Moines scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

5755 - Des Moines: 8.6 → 15.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 26.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2024

5755 - Des Moines's TCR rose 7.3 from 8.6 in 2017 to 15.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 26.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561730 · Ankeny, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.6 · 303% of ind

  • DART 11.3 DART
  • RANK #24/24
  • PHOTO Agave LD LLC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Agave LD LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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5755 - Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5755 - Des Moines averages 13.6 TCR (303% of the Lawn Care BLS benchmark).

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

5755 - Des Moines TCR series: 2017=8.6 · 2018=26.8 · 2020=14.4 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=11.2 · 2023=16.5 · 2024=15.9 · BLS 4.5

Where 5755 - Des Moines falls in its industry

2,875 Lawn Care establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 24 Lawn Care employers in Iowa.

5755 - Des Moines (51 employees, TCR 13.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 5755 - Des Moines
5755 - Des Moines (51 employees, TCR 13.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5755 - Des Moines has fewer employees than the Lawn Care median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 15.9 11.3 7 0 0
2023 16.5 16.5 7 0 0
2022 11.2 8.9 5 0 0
2021 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2020 14.4 9.6 6 0 0
2018 26.8 21.1 13 1 0
2017 8.6 8.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561730 · IA · Ankeny

2,875 Lawn Care employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 141 employers in Ankeny, 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 Agave LD LLC 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Vista Landscape Services, Inc. 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Emerald Isle Landscaping 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ArborForce 13.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Allendan Seed Company 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Falls Truck Wash 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Marion Research MRN1 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE GRS OSI Gen Repair Svc Wind Plt 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Des Moines Works 1,811 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Works 1,555 FTE
CITY-NEAR PDI 859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baker Group 617 FTE
NAT-TCR UCP- (BECA) Bailes Early Childhood Academy 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Parks & Recreation Aquatics 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Signature Living of Jefferson City-ALF 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Desert Compass Logistics LLC 13.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5715 - Rochester Hills 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5710 - Taylor 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5809 - Warminster 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5815 - Woodlawn 51 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, 2018, 2017. 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.