Courier Services Except by Air · Iowa

Ames (Iaame)

Ames, IA · ~90 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
12.9
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ames (Iaame) runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Courier Services Except by Air workplace, earning a grade D.

Ames (Iaame): 12.9 TCR = 198% of Courier Services Except by Air BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ames (Iaame) safety composite

Ames (Iaame) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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 12.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ames (Iaame): 10.8 → 16.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 16.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2018

Ames (Iaame)'s TCR rose 6.1 from 10.8 in 2016 to 16.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 12.9 · 198% of ind

  • DART 10.7 DART
  • RANK #64/82
  • PHOTO JMJ DELIVERY LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JMJ DELIVERY LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ames (Iaame) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ames (Iaame) averages 12.9 TCR (198% of the Courier Services Except by Air BLS benchmark).

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

Ames (Iaame) TCR series: 2016=10.8 · 2017=11 · 2018=16.9 · BLS 6.5

Where Ames (Iaame) falls in its industry

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #64 safest of 82 Courier Services Except by Air employers in Iowa.

Ames (Iaame) (90 employees, TCR 12.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Ames (Iaame)
Ames (Iaame) (90 employees, TCR 12.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Ames (Iaame) has fewer employees than the Courier Services Except by Air median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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
2018 16.9 10.7 11 0 0
2017 11.0 6.3 7 0 0
2016 10.8 6.2 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · IA · Ames

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 170 employers in Ames, 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 JMJ DELIVERY LLC 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keelco Logistics, LLC 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR FedEx 3171 BOZEMAN AVE 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR EPP Services LLC 12.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cactus Family Farms 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Des Moines Urbandale South 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wyckoff Heating & Cooling 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Graettinger 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - University Wide 13,316 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - On Campus 12,527 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center- Main Hospital 1,415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center 1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR 0374 - North Hollywood, Ca 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 4795-PD-TUL-TULSA-PD 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR B-X Waterbury LLC 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hauling Company 12.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eureka (Caeur) 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Eagle #1225 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbus (Mscol) 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newark (Njnwk) 90 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, 2017, 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.