State police · Iowa

Department of Public Safety

Des Moines, IA · ~954 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Department of Public Safety runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical State police workplace, earning a grade D.

Department of Public Safety: 4.1 TCR = 128% of State police BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Department of Public Safety safety composite

Department of Public Safety scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 4.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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

−2.3

2022→2024

Department of Public Safety injury rate improved

Department of Public Safety's TCR fell 2.3 from 5.2 in 2022 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.2 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 128% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #4/18
  • PHOTO Dept. of Public Safe…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 108 inj
  • SIZE ~954 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dept. of Public Safety (4) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Department of Public Safety in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Department of Public Safety averages 4.1 TCR (128% of the State police BLS benchmark).

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

Department of Public Safety TCR series: 2022=5.2 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Department of Public Safety falls in its industry

716 State police establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

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 18 State police employers in Iowa.

Department of Public Safety (954 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Department of Public Safety
Department of Public Safety (954 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Department of Public Safety has more employees than the State police median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 2.9 2.5 29 1 0
2023 4.2 3.1 37 0 0
2022 5.2 2.3 42 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · IA · Des Moines

716 State police 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 Dept. of Public Safety (4) 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Manassas 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cottonwood County Law Enforcement Center 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Homewood Police Department 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino, Inc. 965 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Lutheran Hospital 941 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa City North Dodge (ICND) 940 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEDAR RAPIDS IA (QUAKER) 937 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 Workhorse Brewing Company, Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR MREE Enterprises LLC 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant 262 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sweetwood Farm, Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE DFW1 954 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lincoln Premium Poultry 954 FTE
NAT-SIZE Austin Commercial, LP 954 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mundelein Office 954 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, 2022. 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.