Doors, metal, manufacturing · Iowa

Des Moines, Iowa

Des Moines, IA · ~289 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Des Moines, Iowa runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Doors, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Des Moines, Iowa: 4.3 TCR = 129% of Doors, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Des Moines, Iowa safety composite

Des Moines, Iowa scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.4

2016→2017

Des Moines, Iowa injury rate improved

Des Moines, Iowa's TCR fell 4.4 from 6.5 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.5 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.5 · 2017=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332321 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 129% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #6/11
  • PHOTO Portal, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~289 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Portal, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Des Moines, Iowa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Des Moines, Iowa averages 4.3 TCR (129% of the Doors, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Des Moines, Iowa TCR series: 2016=6.5 · 2017=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Des Moines, Iowa falls in its industry

515 Doors, metal, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 11 Doors, metal, manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Des Moines, Iowa (289 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines, Iowa (289 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Des Moines, Iowa has more employees than the Doors, metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2017 2.0 1.0 6 0 0
2016 6.5 4.5 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332321 · IA · Des Moines

515 Doors, metal, manufacturing 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 Portal, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Merit Commercial Windows 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blender Products INC 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quanex Screens Des Moines 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Upper Iowa Beef LLC 289 FTE
STATE-SIZE Highline Warren Council Bluffs Mfg 289 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockwell Collins (Decorah) 289 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1768 - Cedar Rapids North 289 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 500 Jaycee 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Legends - Glen Helen Amphitheater 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ponca City 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Snow Peak Area 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Seattle (Waabu) 289 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mc Allen (Txmca) 289 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crescent Crown Distributing, L.L.C. // New Orleans 289 FTE
NAT-SIZE Developmental Services Division 289 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.