Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Des Moines

Urbandale, IA · ~65 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Des Moines runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Des Moines: 1.9 TCR = 86% of Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Des Moines safety composite

Des Moines scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−4.1

2018→2024

Des Moines injury rate improved

Des Moines's TCR fell 4.1 from 4.1 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.1 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=4.7 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=2.0 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424210 · Urbandale, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.9 · 86% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/8
  • PHOTO Diamond Wholesale Co
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Diamond Wholesale Co (0.0 TCR gap)

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Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Des Moines averages 1.9 TCR (86% of the Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Des Moines TCR series: 2018=4.1 · 2019=0 · 2020=4.7 · 2021=0 · 2022=2 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Des Moines falls in its industry

514 Druggists' sundries merchant w establishments

Safer than 65% 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 Druggists' sundries merchant w employers in Iowa.

Des Moines (65 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Des Moines
Des Moines (65 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Des Moines has fewer employees than the Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.6 1.7 3 0 0
2022 2.0 1.0 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.7 4.7 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424210 · IA · Urbandale

514 Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 104 employers in Urbandale, 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 Diamond Wholesale Co 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Guest Supply LLC - Orlando, FL 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardinal Health Greensboro 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jade Drug Company 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE PDA Duane Arnold 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dubuque Operating Center 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forrest and Associate Inc 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Rapids, IA/Quad Cities HVAC 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISG Urbandale 786 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Manufacturing Corporation 612 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mosaic Urbandale/Nevada 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR URBANDALE IA 352 FTE
NAT-TCR CoreStar International Corporation 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Shields Construction Company, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CENTRE 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hill Electric Company 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chicago 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Shores of Lake Phalen 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, Inc - Bastrop Campus 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commonwealth Senior Living at the Eastern Shore 65 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.