Employer · Iowa

Des Moines 137

Des Moines, IA · ~76 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Des Moines 137 runs at 195% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Des Moines 137: 8.8 TCR = 195% of industry BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Des Moines 137 safety composite

Des Moines 137 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Des Moines 137: 6.3 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 14.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2024

Des Moines 137's TCR rose 2.0 from 6.3 in 2017 to 8.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 14.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.8 · 195% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #39/50
  • PHOTO New Haven 088
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Haven 088 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Des Moines 137 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Des Moines 137 averages 8.8 TCR (195% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Des Moines 137 TCR series: 2017=6.3 · 2018=14.1 · 2020=6 · 2021=8.1 · 2022=11.2 · 2023=7.7 · 2024=8.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Des Moines 137 falls in its industry

3,020 industry establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 50 industry employers in Iowa.

Des Moines 137 (76 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Des Moines 137
Des Moines 137 (76 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Des Moines 137 has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 8.3 6.2 8 0 0
2023 7.7 4.4 7 0 0
2022 11.2 10.1 10 0 0
2021 8.1 6.9 7 0 0
2020 6.0 3.6 5 0 0
2018 14.1 9.0 11 0 0
2017 6.3 4.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · IA · Des Moines

3,020 industry 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 New Haven 088 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 580 LITTLE ROCK 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NAV 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR XBG 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. - Durant, IA SPSC 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Pollution Control (WPC) 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE P&G Iowa City 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE General Constructors Inc. 76 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 New Haven 088 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sun Pacific Shippers | Exeter Packinghouse 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Jifram 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Edina - Aquatic Center 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Calumet City - Police 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Digital Room LLC - Saddle Brook 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE HTC Joliet 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Summit Steel Works Corp 76 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, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017. 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.