Employer · Iowa

885_1889

Des Moines, IA · ~30 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

885_1889 runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

885_1889: 8.2 TCR = 182% of industry BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

885_1889 safety composite

885_1889 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−6.2

2019→2024

885_1889 injury rate improved

885_1889's TCR fell 6.2 from 8.9 in 2019 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 18.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=8.9 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=4.9 · 2022=18.7 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.2 · 182% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #29/34
  • PHOTO TDP Transport Chandler
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TDP Transport Chandler (0.0 TCR gap)

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885_1889 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 885_1889 averages 8.2 TCR (182% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

885_1889 TCR series: 2019=8.9 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=4.9 · 2022=18.7 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 4.5

Where 885_1889 falls in its industry

2,784 industry establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #29 safest of 34 industry employers in Iowa.

885_1889 (30 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 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 885_1889
885_1889 (30 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

885_1889 has fewer employees than the industry 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 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2022 18.7 18.7 5 0 0
2021 4.9 4.9 2 0 0
2020 5.7 5.7 1 0 0
2019 8.9 8.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · IA · Des Moines

2,784 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 525 employers in 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 TDP Transport Chandler 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pallets - Texas 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR NYLBA - ALBANY 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR COLUMBIA (MOCLU) 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Mount Pleasant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Laborers 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Keokuk Plant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kading Construction Company Inc 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 6,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines 4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Des Moines 3,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Methodist Hospital 3,495 FTE
NAT-TCR Locust Ridge Healthcare LLC 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Runnings of Willmar 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR PerforMix - Nampa 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Stupp Bridge Co 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mosaic Ellsworth 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morgan County Community Corrections Annex 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE American International Manufacturing Co, Inc 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Empire Truck Sales - Monroe 30 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.