Vertical Transportation Company · Iowa

D13 Des Moines

Urbandale, IA · ~27 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

D13 Des Moines runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Vertical Transportation Company workplace, earning a grade D.

D13 Des Moines: 3.4 TCR = 121% of Vertical Transportation Company BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

D13 Des Moines safety composite

D13 Des Moines scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−11.4

2016→2024

D13 Des Moines injury rate improved

D13 Des Moines's TCR fell 11.4 from 11.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.4 · 2017=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=3.0 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238290 · Urbandale, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.4 · 121% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #19/30
  • PHOTO Vortex Industries - …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vortex Industries - NOC (0.0 TCR gap)

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D13 Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows D13 Des Moines averages 3.4 TCR (121% of the Vertical Transportation Company BLS benchmark).

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

D13 Des Moines TCR series: 2016=11.4 · 2017=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=3 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where D13 Des Moines falls in its industry

1,138 Vertical Transportation Compan establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 30 Vertical Transportation Compan employers in Iowa.

D13 Des Moines (27 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate D13 Des Moines
D13 Des Moines (27 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.0

D13 Des Moines has fewer employees than the Vertical Transportation Company median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 5.6 2.8 2 0 0
2021 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2020 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 11.4 11.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238290 · IA · Urbandale

1,138 Vertical Transportation Company 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 Vortex Industries - NOC 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TK Elevator Lincoln 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR IDEC ELEVATOR PRODUCTS 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Home office 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2520-Storm Lake, IA (Monsanto Co.) 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wastewater Treatment Plant 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quality Construction Services, Inc. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Weitz Company - Mission Critical - Microsoft DSM 14 27 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 Volunteer Electric 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ardent Mills Chester 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cadiz Crude Fleet 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Colton 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE D28 Syracuse 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quartz & Stone Creations of NH LLC 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scratch and Peck Feeds 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roswell Nm 27 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.