Road construction · Iowa

Des Moines Asphalt & Paving

Ankeny, IA · ~58 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Des Moines Asphalt & Paving runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Road construction workplace, earning a grade C.

Des Moines Asphalt & Paving: 3.1 TCR = 112% of Road construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Des Moines Asphalt & Paving safety composite

Des Moines Asphalt & Paving scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Des Moines Asphalt & Paving: 2.5 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.4× in 2017

Des Moines Asphalt & Paving's TCR rose 1.2 from 2.5 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Ankeny, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 112% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #32/111
  • PHOTO G. Bortolotto & Co.,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: G. Bortolotto & Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Des Moines Asphalt & Paving in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Des Moines Asphalt & Paving averages 3.1 TCR (112% of the Road construction BLS benchmark).

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

Des Moines Asphalt & Paving TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=3.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Des Moines Asphalt & Paving falls in its industry

4,078 Road construction establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 111 Road construction employers in Iowa.

Des Moines Asphalt & Paving (58 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Des Moines Asphalt & Paving
Des Moines Asphalt & Paving (58 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Des Moines Asphalt & Paving has fewer employees than the Road construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 3.7 1.2 3 0 0
2016 2.5 1.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IA · Ankeny

4,078 Road construction 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 G. Bortolotto & Co., Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southeast Roadbuilders Contruction 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Key, LLC - Main 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CDOT-Electrical Operations Division | 2451 S. Ashland Ave. 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Daybreak Foods Inc. - Oakridge 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Point 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Rapids Area Office 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE JB Holland Construction, Inc. 58 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 Okc #97 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Yarmouth (Mayar) 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Douglas Country School District #4 District Office 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Northwest Community Healthcare Medical Group at 1450 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Assisted Living Facility 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schluter Systems - Reno 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Malden N and R LLC 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE AmeriGas - ACE - Ruffs Dales, Pa 58 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.