Employer · Iowa

Des Moines Refinery

Des Moines, IA · ~30 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Des Moines Refinery runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

Des Moines Refinery: 2.7 TCR = 81% of industry BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Des Moines Refinery safety composite

Des Moines Refinery scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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 Refinery: 0.0 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.76× in 2024

Des Moines Refinery's TCR rose 4.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311225 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 81% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #2/8
  • PHOTO Ventura Foods Fort W…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ventura Foods Fort Worth (0.0 TCR gap)

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Des Moines Refinery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Des Moines Refinery averages 2.7 TCR (81% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Des Moines Refinery TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=8.4 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=4.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Des Moines Refinery falls in its industry

86 industry establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 8 industry employers in Iowa.

Des Moines Refinery (30 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Des Moines Refinery
Des Moines Refinery (30 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Des Moines Refinery has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 4.7 4.7 2 0 0
2023 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 8.4 5.6 3 0 0
2021 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311225 · IA · Des Moines

86 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 Ventura Foods Fort Worth 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ventura Foods STJ 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Catania Spagna Corporation 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Upfield Sourcing US Inc. - New Century 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Mount Pleasant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Laborers 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Keokuk Plant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kading Construction Company Inc 30 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 SSD Contracting LLC 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Aitkin/Specialty Clinic - Riverwood 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Glendale TRU 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Barberton 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bluffton Feed Plant 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crystal Warehouse 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Recovery Roofing Inc 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sakata Florida 30 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.