Intellectual and developmental disability homes · Iowa

DSM Office/ DSM HCBS/ DSM Maint.

Name: DSM Office/ DSM HCBS/ DSM Maint. Workplace Safety Data
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Des Moines, IA · ~208 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 10.2
Avg TCR: 3.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

DSM Office/ DSM HCBS/ DSM Maint. runs at 269% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Intellectual and developmental disability homes workplace, earning a grade F.

DSM Office/ DSM HCBS/ DSM Maint.: 10.2 TCR = 269% of Intellectual and developmental disability homes BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DSM Office/ DSM HCBS/ DSM Maint. safety composite

DSM Office/ DSM HCBS/ DSM Maint. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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).

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 10.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers
DART rate: F 7.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

Rising injury rate

DSM Office/ DSM HCBS/ DSM Maint.: 9.5 → 10.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2018

DSM Office/ DSM HCBS/ DSM Maint.'s TCR rose 1.5 from 9.5 in 2017 to 10.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623210 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.2 · 269% of ind

DART 7.9 DART
RANK #52/64
PHOTO Residential
BOOK 2y book
INJ 28 inj
SIZE ~208 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Residential (0.0 TCR gap)

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10.2
Residential

10.2
Eagle Valley C

10.2
Southgate

10.2
7722-AUGLAIZE

10.2

What this shows DSM Office/ DSM HCBS/ DSM Maint. averages 10.2 TCR (269% of the Intellectual and developmental disability homes BLS benchmark).

DSM Office/ DSM HCBS/ DSM Maint. TCR series: 2017=9.5 · 2018=10.9 · BLS 3.8

Where DSM Office/ DSM HCBS/ DSM Maint. falls in its industry

2,261 Intellectual and developmental establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 64 Intellectual and developmental employers in Iowa.

DSM Office/ DSM HCBS/ DSM Maint. (208 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.8

DSM Office/ DSM HCBS/ DSM Maint. has more employees than the Intellectual and developmental disabilit median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2018	10.9	7.9	13	5	0
2017	9.5	6.5	15	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623210 · IA · Des Moines

2,261 Intellectual and developmental disability homes 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Residential	KEARNEY, NE	10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Eagle Valley Children's Home	CARSON CITY, NV	10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Southgate	WEST SENECA, NY	10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	7722-AUGLAIZE FACILITY 1	WAPAKONETA, OH	10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Marzetti Frozen Pasta - Altoona	ALTOONA	208 FTE
STATE-SIZE	IOWA CITY IA - 3091	IOWA CITY	208 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 1435	CRESTON	208 FTE
STATE-SIZE	4186-DC206	MAQUOKETA	208 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Corporate Center	Des Moines	6,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines	Des Moines	4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MercyOne Des Moines	Des Moines	3,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Des Moines Methodist Hospital	Des Moines	3,495 FTE
NAT-TCR	Colorado Springs CO (Buckingham Dr) Depot	Colorado Springs, CO	10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Westmont (Ilwes)	Westmont, IL	10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Baltimore (Mdelr)	Elkridge, MD	10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Angleton (Txang)	Angleton, TX	10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Dairy Fresh - Winston Salem	Winston-Salem, NC	208 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ridgedale Facility	East Hanover, NJ	208 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Miami Facility	Miami, FL	208 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Certech: Wilkes-Barre, PA	Wilkes Barre, PA	208 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: 2018, 2017. 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.