Community social service program administration · Iowa

DHS - Central Office

Des Moines, IA · ~265 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DHS - Central Office runs at 5% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Community social service program administration workplace, earning a grade A.

DHS - Central Office: 0.2 TCR = 5% of Community social service program administration BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DHS - Central Office safety composite

DHS - Central Office scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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)
A 0.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

DHS - Central Office held a steady TCR band

DHS - Central Office's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.3 in 2016 to 0.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 2.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.3 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 923130 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.2 · 5% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK P96
  • PHOTO Olympia 1115 WASHING…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~265 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Olympia 1115 WASHINGTON ST SE (0.0 TCR gap)

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DHS - Central Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DHS - Central Office averages 0.2 TCR (5% of the Community social service program administration BLS benchmark).

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

DHS - Central Office TCR series: 2016=0.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0.4 · BLS 3.2

Where DHS - Central Office falls in its industry

169 Community social service progr establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
DHS - Central Office (265 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate DHS - Central Office
DHS - Central Office (265 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 1.7

DHS - Central Office has more employees than the Community social service program adminis median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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
2019 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.3 0.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

923130 · IA · Des Moines

169 Community social service program administration 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 Olympia 1115 WASHINGTON ST SE 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR WORK AT HOME-INGHAM - DHHS 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Human Service Building OHA 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR GRAND TOWER BLDG - DHHS 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Johnston Campus - JH40 McClintock 265 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1431 265 FTE
STATE-SIZE IA ESAPCO 265 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mediacom 265 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 Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station - Water Reclamation Facility 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenville - 6040 Ponders Court 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CA - Boeing ASN 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Supply Chain : Grand Rapids, MI 0.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bay Area- Specialized Services 265 FTE
NAT-SIZE ShopRite of Succasunna 265 FTE
NAT-SIZE SD Cimpl's 265 FTE
NAT-SIZE New York (PH) 265 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, 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.