Colleges, universities, and professional schools · Iowa

Des Moines

West Des Moines, IA · ~196 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Des Moines runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Colleges, universities, and professional schools workplace, earning a grade B.

Des Moines: 0.9 TCR = 68% of Colleges, universities, and professional schools BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Des Moines safety composite

Des Moines scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−1.9

2016→2019

Des Moines injury rate improved

Des Moines's TCR fell 1.9 from 1.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.9 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · West Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 0.9 · 68% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/10
  • PHOTO Ashland University
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~196 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ashland University (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 0.9 TCR (68% of the Colleges, universities, and professional schools BLS benchmark).

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

Des Moines TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2019=0 · BLS 1.4

Where Des Moines falls in its industry

347 Colleges, universities, and pr establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

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 10 Colleges, universities, and pr employers in Iowa.

Des Moines (196 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Des Moines
Des Moines (196 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Des Moines has fewer employees than the Colleges, universities, and professional median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.9 1.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · IA · West Des Moines

347 Colleges, universities, and professional schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 160 employers in West 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 Ashland University 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR University of Minnesota Rochester 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hawaii Pacific University 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana - Bloomington 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Des Moines Branch 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodharbor Molding & Millworks, LLC 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Century FS 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE Luther Care Services 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hy-Vee, Inc. 73,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wright Tree Service, Inc 4,019 FTE
CITY-NEAR WDMCS 1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR FBL Financial Group Inc., Corporate Headquarters 1,123 FTE
NAT-TCR Duro Bag - Florence 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR ERSE 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Broadway JC and Staffing 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CardioFocus 500 Nickerson 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Grand Rapids Plant - Natrel Division 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hatzel & Buehler, Inc. DE 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holloway Houston Inc 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE UMS Brookfield 196 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: 2019, 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.