238390 Other Building Finishing Contractors · Iowa

CKF Des Moines

Urbandale, IA · ~72 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CKF Des Moines runs at 345% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical 238390 Other Building Finishing Contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

CKF Des Moines: 9.7 TCR = 345% of 238390 Other Building Finishing Contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CKF Des Moines safety composite

CKF Des Moines scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

CKF Des Moines held a steady TCR band

CKF Des Moines's TCR held near 0.3 from 9.5 in 2019 to 9.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=9.5 · 2024=9.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238390 · Urbandale, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 345% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Pacific Pebbles Corp…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pacific Pebbles Corporation Dba Life Deck Coating Installations (0.1 TCR gap)

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CKF Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CKF Des Moines averages 9.7 TCR (345% of the 238390 Other Building Finishing Contractors BLS benchmark).

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

CKF Des Moines TCR series: 2019=9.5 · 2024=9.8 · BLS 2.8

Where CKF Des Moines falls in its industry

403 238390 Other Building Finishin establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 238390 Other Building Finishin employers in Iowa.

CKF Des Moines (72 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate CKF Des Moines
CKF Des Moines (72 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.1

CKF Des Moines has more employees than the 238390 Other Building Finishing Contract median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 9.8 8.2 6 0 0
2019 9.5 5.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238390 · IA · Urbandale

403 238390 Other Building Finishing Contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 104 employers in Urbandale, 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 Pacific Pebbles Corporation Dba Life Deck Coating Installations 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harkraft, Inc. 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bath Makeover by Shugarmans Inc 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR D.R. Nelson & Associates, Inc. 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Des Moines Two Rivers Gas 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Denco Highway Construction Corporation 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forrest & Associate, Inc. 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE IDT Coralville 2600 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISG Urbandale 786 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Manufacturing Corporation 612 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mosaic Urbandale/Nevada 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR URBANDALE IA 352 FTE
NAT-TCR 2516 Fre83 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Chatham Glen 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Achilles, Inc. 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR SA Structural Repair LLC 9.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Waterford at Creekside 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kokomo Operations Center 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hickory Operations Center 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE 011 - Fairfield Ca 72 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, 2019. 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.