Building demolition · Iowa

Earth Services & Abatement

Des Moines, IA · ~52 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Earth Services & Abatement runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Building demolition workplace, earning a grade D.

Earth Services & Abatement: 4.0 TCR = 144% of Building demolition BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Earth Services & Abatement safety composite

Earth Services & Abatement scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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).

F

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Earth Services & Abatement: 2.5 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2024

Earth Services & Abatement's TCR rose 3.0 from 2.5 in 2023 to 5.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 144% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #20/28
  • PHOTO Reding's Gravel & Ex…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Reding's Gravel & Excavating Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Earth Services & Abatement in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Earth Services & Abatement averages 4.0 TCR (144% of the Building demolition BLS benchmark).

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

Earth Services & Abatement TCR series: 2023=2.5 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Earth Services & Abatement falls in its industry

1,750 Building demolition establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 28 Building demolition employers in Iowa.

Earth Services & Abatement (52 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Earth Services & Abatement
Earth Services & Abatement (52 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Earth Services & Abatement has more employees than the Building demolition median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2024 5.5 4.1 4 0 0
2023 2.5 1.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · IA · Des Moines

1,750 Building demolition 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 Reding's Gravel & Excavating Co. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3C Drilling LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jayar Construction, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hjort Excavating Inc 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE KE Flatwork Inc. 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE WNADGL, LLC 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Snappy Popcorn 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Garner Printing 52 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 Fox Factory 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Industries 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Oahu 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rifenburg North Carolina, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE RJB Contracting, Inc. 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Broad River Electric Cooperative, Inc. 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Probi USA Redmond 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orthman Conveying Systems 52 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. 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.