General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Iowa

Copeland Trucking Des Moines

Des Moines, IA · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Copeland Trucking Des Moines runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

Copeland Trucking Des Moines: 2.8 TCR = 63% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Copeland Trucking Des Moines safety composite

Copeland Trucking Des Moines scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.7

2023→2024

Copeland Trucking Des Moines injury rate improved

Copeland Trucking Des Moines's TCR fell 5.7 from 5.7 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 63% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #39/69
  • PHOTO Ontario CA - 1950 St…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ontario CA - 1950 Sterling Avenue (0.0 TCR gap)

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Copeland Trucking Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Copeland Trucking Des Moines averages 2.8 TCR (63% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Copeland Trucking Des Moines TCR series: 2023=5.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Copeland Trucking Des Moines falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 69 General freight trucking, long employers in Iowa.

Copeland Trucking Des Moines (30 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Copeland Trucking Des Moines
Copeland Trucking Des Moines (30 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Copeland Trucking Des Moines has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 5.7 5.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IA · Des Moines

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) 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 Ontario CA - 1950 Sterling Avenue 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Commercial Hauling Company Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valpo Corrugated 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pride Transport Inc. 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Mount Pleasant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Laborers 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Keokuk Plant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kading Construction Company Inc 30 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 Iron City Express 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR kleeberg Mechanical Services LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR LaPlace 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fieldale Farms - Murrayville Plant 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hutton Construction LLC 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Panther Graphics, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE B&B Transformer, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA Long Beach 4100 Donald Douglas Dr 30 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. 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.