Courier Services Except by Air · Iowa

Des Moines (Iades)

Des Moines, IA · ~878 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Des Moines (Iades) runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Courier Services Except by Air workplace, earning a grade D.

Des Moines (Iades): 9.6 TCR = 148% of Courier Services Except by Air BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Des Moines (Iades) safety composite

Des Moines (Iades) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 9.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 6.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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 (Iades): 7.7 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.65× in 2018

Des Moines (Iades)'s TCR rose 1.9 from 7.7 in 2016 to 9.6 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 9.6 · 148% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #51/82
  • PHOTO Amazon.com Services …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 159 inj
  • SIZE ~878 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amazon.com Services LLC - DDT1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Des Moines (Iades) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Des Moines (Iades) averages 9.6 TCR (148% of the Courier Services Except by Air BLS benchmark).

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

Des Moines (Iades) TCR series: 2016=7.7 · 2017=11.6 · 2018=9.6 · BLS 6.5

Where Des Moines (Iades) falls in its industry

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 82 Courier Services Except by Air employers in Iowa.

Des Moines (Iades) (878 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Des Moines (Iades)
Des Moines (Iades) (878 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Des Moines (Iades) has more employees than the Courier Services Except by Air median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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
2018 9.6 6.2 54 3 0
2017 11.6 9.8 61 9 0
2016 7.7 5.6 44 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · IA · Des Moines

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air 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 Amazon.com Services LLC - DDT1 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DYY6 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swiftbox Logistics, LLC 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Premier Logistics Services LLC 9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Prairie Meadows Racetrack, Casino & Hotel 877 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carleton Life Support Systems 874 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cobham Mission Systems Davenport LSS INC 870 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forest City 866 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 Center Point Terminal Company, LLC - Galveston 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Trans Environmental Services, Inc. 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR PathGroup 658 Grassmere 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Peak Home Care Inc dba Home Instead Senior Care 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE CS Wholesale Grocers : Bethlehem IV, PA (GDC) 878 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ingram Micro Irvine Office 878 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mary Free Bed Main Campus 878 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beverly Hospital 878 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.