Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Corporate Office

Des Moines, IA · ~20 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Corporate Office runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Corporate Office: 1.5 TCR = 67% of Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Corporate Office safety composite

Corporate Office scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 0% 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

−4.4

2016→2018

Corporate Office injury rate improved

Corporate Office's TCR fell 4.4 from 4.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.4 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 67% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/11
  • PHOTO Star Distribution
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Star Distribution (0.0 TCR gap)

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Corporate Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Corporate Office averages 1.5 TCR (67% of the Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Corporate Office TCR series: 2016=4.4 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Corporate Office falls in its industry

766 Industrial chemicals merchant establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 11 Industrial chemicals merchant employers in Iowa.

Corporate Office (20 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Corporate Office
Corporate Office (20 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Corporate Office has fewer employees than the Industrial chemicals merchant wholesaler median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.4 0.0 1 0 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · IA · Des Moines

766 Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers 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 Star Distribution 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR PhytoTech Labs 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brenntag Pacific - Portland 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Providence RP 0973 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Skyline Pork, LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE J-Six Farms Iowa 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Handlos Jacksonville 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newell Pig II 20 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 Bethany Woods Nursing & Rehab 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR AFE Massena Operations 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Coconut Plaza Hotel Fun 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Beaumont Aniline 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wisconsin Branch 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shared Services Group 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Hometown #545 (Mobridge, SD) 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Hometown #566 (Warroad, MN) 20 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.