Gen freight trucking · Iowa

6836-DES

Urbandale, IA · ~175 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

6836-DES runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Gen freight trucking workplace, earning a grade D.

6836-DES: 6.1 TCR = 135% of Gen freight trucking BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

6836-DES safety composite

6836-DES scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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 6.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

6836-DES: 3.9 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2019

6836-DES's TCR rose 1.7 from 3.9 in 2017 to 5.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Urbandale, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 135% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #56/69
  • PHOTO ETW PHELPS
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~175 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ETW PHELPS (0.0 TCR gap)

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6836-DES in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 6836-DES averages 6.1 TCR (135% of the Gen freight trucking BLS benchmark).

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

6836-DES TCR series: 2017=3.9 · 2018=8.8 · 2019=5.5 · BLS 4.5

Where 6836-DES falls in its industry

3,252 Gen freight trucking establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 69 Gen freight trucking employers in Iowa.

6836-DES (175 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 6836-DES
6836-DES (175 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

6836-DES has more employees than the Gen freight trucking median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2019 5.5 4.1 8 0 0
2018 8.8 6.8 12 1 0
2017 3.9 3.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IA · Urbandale

3,252 Gen freight trucking 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR ETW PHELPS 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR TKX Logistics 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pro Truck Lines 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Veriha Trucking Milton 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Twin City Drive 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwest Steel Erection 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE W-S Industrial Services, Inc 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Loparex, Iowa City 175 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISG Urbandale 786 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Manufacturing Corporation 612 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mosaic Urbandale/Nevada 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR URBANDALE IA 352 FTE
NAT-TCR st stephens iga 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 490 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0027 1680 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0019 1659 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 380 - Nanuet 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE 272 - Kirkwood 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE 102 - Springfield-IL 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Compression Technologies and Services : MFG-Campbellsville, KY-USA 175 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.