Ambulance Services · Iowa

Des Moines IA

Des Moines, IA · ~35 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Des Moines IA runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ambulance Services workplace, earning a grade D.

Des Moines IA: 5.7 TCR = 151% of Ambulance Services BLS 3.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Des Moines IA safety composite

Des Moines IA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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 IA: 3.1 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 14.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.89× in 2024

Des Moines IA's TCR rose 7.7 from 3.1 in 2016 to 10.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 14.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 151% of ind

  • DART 10.8 DART
  • RANK #3/14
  • PHOTO Nashua 911 Operations
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 133 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nashua 911 Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Des Moines IA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Des Moines IA averages 5.7 TCR (151% of the Ambulance Services BLS benchmark).

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

Des Moines IA TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=14.5 · 2019=0 · 2021=1 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=7.3 · 2024=10.8 · BLS 3.8

Where Des Moines IA falls in its industry

976 Ambulance Services establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

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 14 Ambulance Services employers in Iowa.

Des Moines IA (35 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Des Moines IA
Des Moines IA (35 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Des Moines IA has fewer employees than the Ambulance Services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.3. 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 10.8 10.8 3 0 0
2023 7.3 7.3 2 0 0
2022 5.9 5.9 1 0 0
2021 1.0 0.5 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 14.5 9.6 9 0 0
2017 3.2 3.2 2 0 0
2016 3.1 1.9 114 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · IA · Des Moines

976 Ambulance 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 Nashua 911 Operations 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lapeer County EMS Station 5 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ambulance Services of Dyersburg 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Troy - 03 5.7 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 Riversde Electronics - Riverstar Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Folwell 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Rancho Laguna Farms LLC 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Brooklyn Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ace Hardware Libertyville 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jensen Family Farms Inc 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Martins Welding 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE RedGuard - New Iberia Fabrication Center 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, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 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.