Cotton balers and presses manufacturing · Iowa

Des Moines Works

Ankeny, IA · ~1,555 workers · 6 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 Works runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cotton balers and presses manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Des Moines Works: 2.7 TCR = 82% of Cotton balers and presses manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Des Moines Works safety composite

Des Moines Works scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2016→2021

Des Moines Works injury rate improved

Des Moines Works's TCR fell 0.7 from 2.7 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.7 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=4.0 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Ankeny, IA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #12/65
  • PHOTO Val-co New Holland
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 242 inj
  • SIZE ~1,555 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Val-co New Holland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Des Moines Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Des Moines Works averages 2.7 TCR (82% of the Cotton balers and presses manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Des Moines Works TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=4 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Des Moines Works falls in its industry

433 Cotton balers and presses manu establishments

Safer than 80% 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 #12 safest of 65 Cotton balers and presses manu employers in Iowa.

Des Moines Works (1,555 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Des Moines Works
Des Moines Works (1,555 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Des Moines Works has more employees than the Cotton balers and presses manufacturing median and a lower 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
2021 1.9 0.7 29 0 0
2020 2.3 0.8 35 0 0
2019 4.0 1.7 68 1 0
2018 3.5 1.3 51 7 0
2017 1.9 0.3 25 0 0
2016 2.7 0.9 34 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · IA · Ankeny

433 Cotton balers and presses manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 141 employers in Ankeny, 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 Val-co New Holland 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rainbow Manufacturing Company 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kelderman Manufacturing 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Plains Manufacturing Inc - Ellsworth 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Smithfield Denison 1,555 FTE
STATE-SIZE MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center 1,556 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Ice Cream Plant 1,523 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE 1,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Des Moines Works 1,811 FTE
CITY-NEAR PDI 859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baker Group 617 FTE
CITY-NEAR Karl Chevrolet, Inc. 580 FTE
NAT-TCR BlueScope Buildings North America Jackson TN 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Martin's Country Market, LLC 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Metal Coaters of Mississippi 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR S.S. Hert Lucerne Valley 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE New Brunswick 1,555 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eat Sweet Farms 1,555 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paphi - Philadelphia 1,555 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elkhart General Hospital 1,555 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.