Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Covetrus-DesMoines

Urbandale, IA · ~37 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Covetrus-DesMoines runs at 288% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Covetrus-DesMoines: 6.3 TCR = 288% of Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Covetrus-DesMoines safety composite

Covetrus-DesMoines scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

Covetrus-DesMoines held a steady TCR band

Covetrus-DesMoines's TCR held near 0.2 from 6.3 in 2020 to 6.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=6.3 · 2021=6.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424210 · Urbandale, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.3 · 288% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO Home Care Infusion P…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Home Care Infusion Pharmacy, Chestnut Ridge Medical (0.0 TCR gap)

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Covetrus-DesMoines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Covetrus-DesMoines averages 6.3 TCR (288% of the Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Covetrus-DesMoines TCR series: 2020=6.3 · 2021=6.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Covetrus-DesMoines falls in its industry

514 Druggists' sundries merchant w establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #4 safest of 8 Druggists' sundries merchant w employers in Iowa.

Covetrus-DesMoines (37 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Covetrus-DesMoines
Covetrus-DesMoines (37 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Covetrus-DesMoines has fewer employees than the Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers median and a higher 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
2021 6.4 3.2 2 0 0
2020 6.3 6.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424210 · IA · Urbandale

514 Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers 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 Home Care Infusion Pharmacy, Chestnut Ridge Medical 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Strawberry Fields-HIRIT 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardinal Health 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Worth Distribution Center & Call Center 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rockwell City Warehouse 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sioux County Egg 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE OSI Gen Repair & Svc Wind Plt 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE BHE - Lawrence (KS009) 37 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 American Furniture Rental-San Fran 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Greco & Haines, Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Atriums 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR BOS-SPUSA 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gogebic County 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE M.C. Molds, Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kortendick Hardware Inc 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE K&A Manufacturing, Inc. 37 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: 2021, 2020. 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.