Vegetable oils made from purchased oils · Iowa

Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Des Moines

Des Moines, IA · ~28 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Des Moines runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Vegetable oils made from purchased oils workplace, earning a grade D.

Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Des Moines: 4.2 TCR = 128% of Vegetable oils made from purchased oils BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Des Moines safety composite

Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Des Moines scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Des Moines: 0.0 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.58× in 2020

Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Des Moines's TCR rose 6.7 from 0.0 in 2017 to 6.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311225 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 128% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #3/8
  • PHOTO Owensboro Grain Edib…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Owensboro Grain Edible Oils (0.5 TCR gap)

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Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Des Moines averages 4.2 TCR (128% of the Vegetable oils made from purchased oils BLS benchmark).

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

Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Des Moines TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Des Moines falls in its industry

86 Vegetable oils made from purch establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

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 8 Vegetable oils made from purch employers in Iowa.

Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Des Moines (28 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Des Moines
Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Des Moines (28 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Des Moines has fewer employees than the Vegetable oils made from purchased oils median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 6.7 6.7 1 1 0
2019 6.9 6.9 2 0 0
2018 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311225 · IA · Des Moines

86 Vegetable oils made from purchased oils 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 Owensboro Grain Edible Oils 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hardy Industrial Technologies 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Upfield Sourcing US Inc., 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE IOWA ADMIN 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pocahontas Warehouse 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE WCT Crystal Lake 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE BHE - Council Bluff W Broadway (IA001) 28 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 846 Conroe, Tx 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 19 Arlington Heights, Il 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Talon - Tampa 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1852 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE WCTractor 14 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roses 409 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Emery Sealco, Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Branch Home Care 28 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.