Other Building Material Dealers · Iowa

Des Moines IA Yard

Des Moines, IA · ~26 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Des Moines IA Yard runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Other Building Material Dealers workplace, earning a grade A.

Des Moines IA Yard: 1.6 TCR = 48% of Other Building Material Dealers BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Des Moines IA Yard safety composite

Des Moines IA Yard scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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%).

Des Moines IA Yard held a steady TCR band

Des Moines IA Yard's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.0 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444180 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 48% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P78
  • PHOTO Shelbyville KY Yard
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shelbyville KY Yard (0.0 TCR gap)

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Des Moines IA Yard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Des Moines IA Yard averages 1.6 TCR (48% of the Other Building Material Dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Des Moines IA Yard TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Des Moines IA Yard falls in its industry

280 Other Building Material Dealer establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Des Moines IA Yard (26 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Des Moines IA Yard
Des Moines IA Yard (26 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Des Moines IA Yard has fewer employees than the Other Building Material Dealers median and a lower 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 4.9 4.9 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444180 · IA · Des Moines

280 Other Building Material Dealers 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 Shelbyville KY Yard 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fairburn GA Yard 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fredericksburg TX Yard 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charleston WV Yard 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eastwood Sow Unit 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4806-Urbandale, IA 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE DBQ Downtown Office 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Iowa Electric Cooperative 26 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 Shelbyville KY Yard 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Willamette Valley Company - Eclectic Products 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR SMW Manufacturing, Oxford, MS 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Haldex Brake Products Columbia 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE VVS-Vein & Vascular Surgeons 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE OmniSource Transport, LLC. - Southern Indiana Trucking 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE PACE 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bk 7804 26 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. 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.