Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing · Iowa

Bemis North America - Des Moines

Des Moines, IA · ~170 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bemis North America - Des Moines runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Bemis North America - Des Moines: 2.1 TCR = 63% of Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bemis North America - Des Moines safety composite

Bemis North America - Des Moines scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Bemis North America - Des Moines held a steady TCR band

Bemis North America - Des Moines's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.6 in 2016 to 0.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.6 · 2017=5.2 · 2018=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326112 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 63% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Zip-Pak
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~170 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Zip-Pak (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bemis North America - Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bemis North America - Des Moines averages 2.1 TCR (63% of the Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bemis North America - Des Moines TCR series: 2016=0.6 · 2017=5.2 · 2018=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Bemis North America - Des Moines falls in its industry

396 Film, plastics, packaging, man establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Film, plastics, packaging, man employers in Iowa.

Bemis North America - Des Moines (170 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bemis North America - Des Moines
Bemis North America - Des Moines (170 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Bemis North America - Des Moines has more employees than the Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2017 5.2 1.1 9 0 0
2016 0.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326112 · IA · Des Moines

396 Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing 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 Zip-Pak 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bonset America Corporation 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charter Next Generation - Massillon 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Berry Global - MOPA 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Hedrick HED1 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodruff Construction, Inc 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE DFA FLUID - LEMARS IA - LINCOLN ST 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waterloo Plant 170 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 IHE dba Interim Healthcare of West Central FL 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Marietta Corporation-Central Ave Properties Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Berry Plastics 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sonoma Cove 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bemis North America - Russellville 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otto Trucking, Inc. 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of Haltom 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alameda Oaks Nursing Center 170 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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