Corporate offices · Iowa

CDS Global Des Moines

Des Moines, IA · ~566 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CDS Global Des Moines runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Corporate offices workplace, earning a grade D.

CDS Global Des Moines: 1.1 TCR = 156% of Corporate offices BLS 0.7 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CDS Global Des Moines safety composite

CDS Global Des Moines scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

CDS Global Des Moines: 0.6 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2017

CDS Global Des Moines's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.6 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 551114 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 1.1 · 156% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #17/30
  • PHOTO Zinpro Corporate Hea…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~566 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Zinpro Corporate Headquarters (0.0 TCR gap)

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CDS Global Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CDS Global Des Moines averages 1.1 TCR (156% of the Corporate offices BLS benchmark).

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

CDS Global Des Moines TCR series: 2016=0.6 · 2017=1.6 · BLS 0.7

Where CDS Global Des Moines falls in its industry

1,475 Corporate offices establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 30 Corporate offices employers in Iowa.

CDS Global Des Moines (566 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 189 employees and a TCR of 0.7 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate CDS Global Des Moines
CDS Global Des Moines (566 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 189 employees and a TCR of 0.7

CDS Global Des Moines has more employees than the Corporate offices median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.7. 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
2017 1.6 0.7 7 0 0
2016 0.6 0.4 1 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

551114 · IA · Des Moines

1,475 Corporate offices 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 Zinpro Corporate Headquarters 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hines Corporate Office 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Support Center - office 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northeast Foods Corporate 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bertch Cabinet Mfg. 566 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mom's Meals IA Home Office 565 FTE
STATE-SIZE FAREWAY STORES, INC. 3804 568 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Ambrose University 564 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 Hyatt Place Lake Mary/Orlando-North 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Power Services : Houston, TX, USA (J-Port) 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Holland - MO 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Covestro Salisbury Road 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Augustana University 566 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mt Clemens Axalta Coating Systems 566 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Dow Chemical Company -Newark, DE 566 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Tennessee Regional Health System-Winchester/Sewanee 566 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: 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.