General Freight Trucking · Iowa

DSM

Des Moines, IA · ~129 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DSM runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General Freight Trucking workplace, earning a grade C.

DSM: 3.8 TCR = 84% of General Freight Trucking BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DSM safety composite

DSM scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

DSM: 0.0 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.04× in 2024

DSM's TCR rose 7.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 7.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 2.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 84% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #18/34
  • PHOTO CXI Trucking
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CXI Trucking (0.0 TCR gap)

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DSM in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DSM averages 3.8 TCR (84% of the General Freight Trucking BLS benchmark).

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

DSM TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4 · 2018=4 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=8.2 · 2022=5.2 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 4.5

Where DSM falls in its industry

2,784 General Freight Trucking establishments

Safer than 60% 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 #18 safest of 34 General Freight Trucking employers in Iowa.

DSM (129 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 DSM
DSM (129 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

DSM has more employees than the General Freight Trucking 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
2024 7.7 7.7 6 0 0
2023 5.1 5.1 4 0 0
2022 5.2 5.2 4 0 0
2021 8.2 5.5 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.0 3.1 13 0 0
2017 4.0 2.7 12 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 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 CXI Trucking 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR So Cal Livehaul Belgravia 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hoffman Transport Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pitt Ohio - Richmond 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Murphy Tower Service LLC 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE HAWKEYE ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS OF CEDAR RAPIDS, LTD 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa City 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6568 129 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 Lufkin 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Donghee America Inc 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 019-LVL 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Grbr 56na/A0/N0/E0 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE FXI, Inc. - Coldwater 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlantic Shores Nursing and Rehab Center 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dynamic Dies Holland 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE CertainTeed Jonesburg 129 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, 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.