Plumbing and heating contractors · Iowa

Brockway Mechanical DesMoines

Des Moines, IA · ~53 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brockway Mechanical DesMoines runs at 235% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Brockway Mechanical DesMoines: 6.6 TCR = 235% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brockway Mechanical DesMoines safety composite

Brockway Mechanical DesMoines scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Brockway Mechanical DesMoines: 3.2 → 13.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.76× in 2024

Brockway Mechanical DesMoines's TCR rose 10.3 from 3.2 in 2020 to 13.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.6 · 235% of ind

  • DART 11.6 DART
  • RANK #69/94
  • PHOTO Boston Fire Sprinkle…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Boston Fire Sprinkler Protection Co., LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Brockway Mechanical DesMoines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brockway Mechanical DesMoines averages 6.6 TCR (235% of the Plumbing and heating contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Brockway Mechanical DesMoines TCR series: 2020=3.2 · 2021=3.9 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=13.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Brockway Mechanical DesMoines falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #69 safest of 94 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in Iowa.

Brockway Mechanical DesMoines (53 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Brockway Mechanical DesMoines
Brockway Mechanical DesMoines (53 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Brockway Mechanical DesMoines has fewer employees than the Plumbing and heating contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 13.5 11.6 7 0 0
2023 5.8 5.8 3 0 0
2021 3.9 0.0 2 0 0
2020 3.2 1.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · IA · Des Moines

5,793 Plumbing and heating contractors 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 Boston Fire Sprinkler Protection Co., LLC 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freund Enterprises Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snell Heating and Air Conditioning 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Humphrey Plumbing, Inc. 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Natural Beauty Growers, LLC - Boyden IA 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smith Fertilizer & Grain Co 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Streb Construction Co., Inc. 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Caliber Concrete LLC 53 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 Silver Creek Inn 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The A J Gates Company 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Associated Well Services, Inc 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Town of Hyde Park 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clbv Associates, LLC 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Myrtle Beach 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cartersville Shop 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peace Industries, Ltd. 53 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, 2023, 2021, 2020. 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.