Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid · Iowa

Des Moines -IA

Des Moines, IA · ~30 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Des Moines -IA runs at 359% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid workplace, earning a grade F.

Des Moines -IA: 9.3 TCR = 359% of Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid BLS 2.6 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Des Moines -IA safety composite

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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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 -IA: 3.0 → 13.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2024

Des Moines -IA's TCR rose 10.3 from 3.0 in 2020 to 13.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 359% of ind

  • DART 10.7 DART
  • RANK #17/24
  • PHOTO Oak Ridge Waste & Re…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oak Ridge Waste & Recycling of CT, LLC - Stamford (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 9.3 TCR (359% of the Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid BLS benchmark).

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

Des Moines -IA TCR series: 2020=3 · 2021=11 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=11.1 · 2024=13.3 · BLS 2.6

Where Des Moines -IA falls in its industry

2,322 Waste collection services, non establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 24 Waste collection services, non employers in Iowa.

Des Moines -IA (30 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 -IA
Des Moines -IA (30 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Des Moines -IA has fewer employees than the Waste collection services, nonhazardous median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 13.3 10.7 5 0 0
2023 11.1 8.3 4 0 0
2022 8.3 8.3 3 0 0
2021 11.0 5.5 4 0 0
2020 3.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · IA · Des Moines

2,322 Waste collection services, nonhazardous solid 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 Oak Ridge Waste & Recycling of CT, LLC - Stamford 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waste Pro 613 - Baton Rouge 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanitation 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Solutions 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Mount Pleasant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Laborers 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Keokuk Plant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kading Construction Company Inc 30 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 Paramount Coffee Company 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Greystone Programs, Inc. 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 2017 - San Jose 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR KODA Energy 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Paramount Plastics, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE GNF, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Contra Costa Door Co. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Small's Asphalt Paving, Inc. 30 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, 2020. 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.