Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Services · Iowa

Des Moines Airport (Iadap)

Des Moines, IA · ~99 workers · 2 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 Airport (Iadap) runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Services workplace, earning a grade D.

Des Moines Airport (Iadap): 8.8 TCR = 194% of Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Des Moines Airport (Iadap) safety composite

Des Moines Airport (Iadap) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Des Moines Airport (Iadap): 7.5 → 10.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.29× in 2017

Des Moines Airport (Iadap)'s TCR rose 2.5 from 7.5 in 2016 to 10.0 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488190 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.8 · 194% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO 7762 - 1-MAIN
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 7762 - 1-MAIN (0.0 TCR gap)

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Des Moines Airport (Iadap) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Des Moines Airport (Iadap) averages 8.8 TCR (194% of the Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Services BLS benchmark).

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

Des Moines Airport (Iadap) TCR series: 2016=7.5 · 2017=10 · BLS 4.5

Where Des Moines Airport (Iadap) falls in its industry

992 Aircraft Maintenance and Repai establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Aircraft Maintenance and Repai employers in Iowa.

Des Moines Airport (Iadap) (99 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Des Moines Airport (Iadap)
Des Moines Airport (Iadap) (99 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Des Moines Airport (Iadap) has more employees than the Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 10.0 2.5 4 0 0
2016 7.5 0.0 2 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488190 · IA · Des Moines

992 Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Services 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 7762 - 1-MAIN 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BWI AIRPORT (MDBWI) 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR DBP GUS 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR DI - AFM West Barstow NTC 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Guthrie Center Egg Farm 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grinnell, IA-FND 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Civil Contracting, Inc. 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE D. C. Taylor Co Cedar Rapids- Iowa 99 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 N and R of South Kansas City LLC 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR N and R of Bethany Inc 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rapid City (Sdrap) 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Health - Carlinville 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Troy LLC 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kraemer Farms LLC 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbia Distributing Bend 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Times Supermarket - Kamehameha 99 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.