General freight trucking, local · Iowa

Des Moines Terminal

Des Moines, IA · ~56 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Des Moines Terminal runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade B.

Des Moines Terminal: 2.4 TCR = 53% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Des Moines Terminal safety composite

Des Moines Terminal scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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 Terminal: 0.0 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2020

Des Moines Terminal's TCR rose 4.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 53% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #6/34
  • PHOTO Cason Transport LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cason Transport LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Des Moines Terminal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Des Moines Terminal averages 2.4 TCR (53% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Des Moines Terminal TCR series: 2016=0 · 2020=4.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Des Moines Terminal falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

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 34 General freight trucking, loca employers in Iowa.

Des Moines Terminal (56 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 Terminal
Des Moines Terminal (56 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Des Moines Terminal has more employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2020 4.8 1.6 6 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · IA · Des Moines

2,784 General freight trucking, local 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 Cason Transport LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Howard Sheppard - Garden City 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR KRP Transport LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bowling Transportation Middletown 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Solid Waste 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thombert Inc. 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kent Nutrtion Group- Sheldon 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE 185697-MARION PO 56 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 Tanglewood 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bay Ridge 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Horizon Termite & Pest Control Corp 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dolce American Airlines Training & Conference Center 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE UP Health System-Marquette A Duke LifePoint Hospital 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tri-Star Summit Medical Center 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE 01H1 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE TJT 56 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: 2020, 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.