Employer · Iowa

Des Moines Premix Plant

Des Moines, IA · ~50 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Des Moines Premix Plant runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

Des Moines Premix Plant: 3.2 TCR = 83% of industry BLS 3.9 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Des Moines Premix Plant safety composite

Des Moines Premix Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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 Premix Plant: 1.8 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 12.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Des Moines Premix Plant's TCR rose 0.9 from 1.8 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 83% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #19/62
  • PHOTO Amick Farms, LLC SC …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amick Farms, LLC SC FeedMill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Des Moines Premix Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Des Moines Premix Plant averages 3.2 TCR (83% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Des Moines Premix Plant TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=0 · 2018=3.9 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=12 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.9

Where Des Moines Premix Plant falls in its industry

756 industry establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 62 industry employers in Iowa.

Des Moines Premix Plant (50 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Des Moines Premix Plant
Des Moines Premix Plant (50 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Des Moines Premix Plant has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2023 12.0 9.6 4 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2018 3.9 0.0 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.8 1.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · IA · Des Moines

756 industry 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 Amick Farms, LLC SC FeedMill 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peco Foods Inc.- Newark Feed Mill 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ridley Block Operations 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nutrition 101, LLC Adairsville 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sioux Jerseys, LLP 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEABOARD FOODS LP IOWA ADMIN 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brenneman Pork, LLLP 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northeast Iowa Artificial Insemination Inc. 50 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 Plant #13 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cardinal Carryor, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR OR-Central/Exley 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Howard 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Peoria Landside 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ortega Investments Inc 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cooper Logistics 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Media One Logistics LLC 50 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, 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.