Employer · Iowa

Des Moines Container

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

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Des Moines Container runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

Des Moines Container: 1.4 TCR = 41% of industry BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Des Moines Container safety composite

Des Moines Container scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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 Container: 0.0 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.01× in 2017

Des Moines Container's TCR rose 2.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 2.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 41% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #3/15
  • PHOTO San Antonio Central …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: San Antonio Central Container (0.0 TCR gap)

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Des Moines Container in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Des Moines Container averages 1.4 TCR (41% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Des Moines Container TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Des Moines Container falls in its industry

1,338 industry establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 15 industry employers in Iowa.

Des Moines Container (35 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0100200300 0123456 Average employees Total Case Rate Des Moines Container
Des Moines Container (35 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Des Moines Container has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · IA · Des Moines

1,338 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 San Antonio Central Container 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tampa Container 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR AL041 Huntsville Container 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper 1.4 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 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 Splish Splash Waterpark 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Midwest Detasseling, LLC 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR WSMTN - Spectrum-Mountain Region 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR S. P. Richards Company 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 3620 Sws of Ga-Brunswick 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairfield Inn & Suites 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Harborview 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE House of Color, Inc. 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: 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.