Employer · Iowa

Des Moines

Ankeny, IA · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Des Moines runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Des Moines: 5.5 TCR = 123% of industry BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Des Moines safety composite

Des Moines scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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: 0.0 → 11.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.56× in 2024

Des Moines's TCR rose 11.1 from 0.0 in 2023 to 11.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Ankeny, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 123% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK #23/50
  • PHOTO NORFOLK NFK
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NORFOLK NFK (0.0 TCR gap)

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Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Des Moines averages 5.5 TCR (123% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Des Moines TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=11.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Des Moines falls in its industry

3,020 industry establishments

Safer than 51% 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 #23 safest of 50 industry employers in Iowa.

Des Moines (35 employees, TCR 5.5) 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
Des Moines (35 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Des Moines has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower 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 11.1 8.6 9 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · IA · Ankeny

3,020 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 141 employers in Ankeny, 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 NORFOLK NFK 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR XPN 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Longview TX FXFE-LVW 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newark NJ FXFE-NEW 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE IA17-SEL-OSCEOLA HATCHERY' 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience - Algona Research - ALG2 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE JFSNA at ADM Cedar Rapids 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE On Track Construction, LLC 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Des Moines Works 1,811 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Works 1,555 FTE
CITY-NEAR PDI 859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baker Group 617 FTE
NAT-TCR Malden 51 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Tulsa Elderly Nutr 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Zero Zone Refrigeration, LLC 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Anaheim Arena Management, LLC 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Thomas Concrete of Georgia Doraville 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hermitage Farm 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advanced Thermal Systems, Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Excavating of Michigan Limited 35 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.