Vegetable oils made from purchased oils · Iowa

Cargill, Des Moines

Des Moines, IA · ~31 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cargill, Des Moines runs at 24% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Vegetable oils made from purchased oils workplace, earning a grade A.

Cargill, Des Moines: 0.8 TCR = 24% of Vegetable oils made from purchased oils BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill, Des Moines safety composite

Cargill, Des Moines scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

Cargill, Des Moines held a steady TCR band

Cargill, Des Moines's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311225 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 24% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO AAK USA Inc
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AAK USA Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Cargill, Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cargill, Des Moines averages 0.8 TCR (24% 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, Des Moines TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=0.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Cargill, Des Moines falls in its industry

86 Vegetable oils made from purch establishments

Safer than 91% 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 #1 safest of 8 Vegetable oils made from purch employers in Iowa.

Cargill, Des Moines (31 employees, TCR 0.8) 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, Des Moines
Cargill, Des Moines (31 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Cargill, Des Moines has fewer employees than the Vegetable oils made from purchased oils median and a lower 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
2024 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2023 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 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 AAK USA Inc 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quincy Refinery 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Global Alternative Fuels 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cincinnati Crisco Plant 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dupont - Pioneer Johnston Parent 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE MBS Genetics, LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE MiEnergy Cooperative - Iowa 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oelwein 31 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 Equipment Depot Ohio, Inc - Cincinnati 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Magnum Metals, LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Winnercomm Inc. - Tulsa, OK 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tecta America 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE QuantumClean - Carrollton 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Senior Bridge Home Health Care INC 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Career Preparation Center 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alpine Adirondack Associates LLC, DBA Saranac Village at Will Rogers 31 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, 2022, 2021. 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.