Art museums · Iowa

Department of Cultural Affairs

Name: Department of Cultural Affairs Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Des Moines, IA · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 0.0
Avg TCR: 3.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Department of Cultural Affairs runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Art museums workplace, earning a grade C.

Department of Cultural Affairs: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Art museums BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Department of Cultural Affairs safety composite

Department of Cultural Affairs scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Department of Cultural Affairs held a steady TCR band

Department of Cultural Affairs's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.0 TCR.

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712110 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #0/5
PHOTO Cedar Bay Entertainm…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 0 inj
SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cedar Bay Entertainment LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Thinkery

0.5
Fenimore Art M

0.5
SCIENCE CENTRA

0.5
This site

0
Cedar Bay Ente

0

What this shows Department of Cultural Affairs averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Art museums BLS benchmark).

Department of Cultural Affairs TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · BLS 3.1

Where Department of Cultural Affairs falls in its industry

246 Art museums establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 5 Art museums employers in Iowa.

Department of Cultural Affairs (45 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Department of Cultural Affairs has fewer employees than the Art museums median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2017	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2016	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712110 · IA · Des Moines

246 Art museums 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Cedar Bay Entertainment LLC	BRANSON, MO	0.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Thinkery	AUSTIN, TX	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Fenimore Art Museum	COOPERSTOWN, NY	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SCIENCE CENTRAL	FORT WAYNE, IN	0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Bushel Boy - Mason City	MASON CITY	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Amana Farms, Inc.	AMANA	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Opal Foods Hampton	HAMPTON	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Davenport Service Center	DAVENPORT	45 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Corporate Center	Des Moines	6,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines	Des Moines	4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MercyOne Des Moines	Des Moines	3,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Des Moines Methodist Hospital	Des Moines	3,495 FTE
NAT-TCR	Aviation Other : Virtual Employee Roll-Up Site	Cincinnati, OH	0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	AZ-01	Phoenix, AZ	0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	CT-02	Stamford, CT	0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	NJ-05	Ewing Township, NJ	0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	ADS Waverly	Waverly, NY	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	A.P. Eberlein Co., Inc.	Longmont, CO	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Advance Transit, Inc.	Wilder, VT	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Clean Venture Inc. - Clayton	Clayton, NJ	45 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: 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.