Other Building Material Dealers · Iowa

Des Moines RDC

Altoona, IA · ~67 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Des Moines RDC runs at 207% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Other Building Material Dealers workplace, earning a grade F.

Des Moines RDC: 7.0 TCR = 207% of Other Building Material Dealers BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Des Moines RDC safety composite

Des Moines RDC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−3.0

2022→2024

Des Moines RDC injury rate improved

Des Moines RDC's TCR fell 3.0 from 8.8 in 2022 to 5.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=8.8 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Altoona, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 207% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #16/19
  • PHOTO Wolff Bros. Supply, …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wolff Bros. Supply, Inc. Sandusky (0.0 TCR gap)

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Des Moines RDC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Des Moines RDC averages 7.0 TCR (207% 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 RDC TCR series: 2022=8.8 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Des Moines RDC falls in its industry

1,643 Other Building Material Dealer establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 19 Other Building Material Dealer employers in Iowa.

Des Moines RDC (67 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Des Moines RDC
Des Moines RDC (67 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Des Moines RDC has more employees than the Other Building Material Dealers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 5.8 4.3 4 0 0
2023 6.5 6.5 5 0 0
2022 8.8 6.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · IA · Altoona

1,643 Other Building Material Dealers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 52 employers in Altoona, 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 Wolff Bros. Supply, Inc. Sandusky 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ring's End Niantic 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heartland Pella 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meyers 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE International Poultry Breeders Hatcheries, Inc. 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dave Schmitt Construction Company 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hendrickson Transportation, LLC 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE General Constructors Inc of the Quad Cities 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casion 1,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adventureland Resort 1,040 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino, Inc. 965 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Meadows Racetrack, Casino & Hotel 877 FTE
NAT-TCR Keystone RV Company - Plant 18 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Northern DC Butte 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Big R of Thornton, LLC. 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR MetalStorm, Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sunset Health Care Center 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grilled Sandwiches, LLC. 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE A-Whisco, Inc. 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Curry Rail Services - Hockley 67 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.