Civil engineering services · Iowa

Bolton & Menk - Des Moines

Des Moines, IA · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bolton & Menk - Des Moines runs at 368% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Civil engineering services workplace, earning a grade F.

Bolton & Menk - Des Moines: 1.8 TCR = 368% of Civil engineering services BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bolton & Menk - Des Moines safety composite

Bolton & Menk - Des Moines scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 1.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Bolton & Menk - Des Moines: 0.0 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2020

Bolton & Menk - Des Moines's TCR rose 3.7 from 0.0 in 2019 to 3.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541330 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 1.8 · 368% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #6/10
  • PHOTO Belle Fourche
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Belle Fourche (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bolton & Menk - Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bolton & Menk - Des Moines averages 1.8 TCR (368% of the Civil engineering services BLS benchmark).

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

Bolton & Menk - Des Moines TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=3.7 · BLS 0.5

Where Bolton & Menk - Des Moines falls in its industry

690 Civil engineering services establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 10 Civil engineering services employers in Iowa.

Bolton & Menk - Des Moines (23 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 0.9 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bolton & Menk - Des Moines
Bolton & Menk - Des Moines (23 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 0.9

Bolton & Menk - Des Moines has fewer employees than the Civil engineering services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.9. 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
2020 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541330 · IA · Des Moines

690 Civil engineering services 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 Belle Fourche 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tremark LLC 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WorleyParsons Group Inc - Atlanta 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Geo-Technology Associates, Inc. 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Remsen Farmers Coop 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE M L Kapp Power Station 2 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshalltown Gen Station 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Ames - Electric Distribution 23 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 Library and Research Center 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Main 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CB 233 - Jackson 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR BHGAR - Fayetteville Borick Dr (AR007) 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hudson Care and Rehab Center 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buffalo Shop 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Terre Haute Branch 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clay City Branch 23 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: 2020, 2019. 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.