Airport operators (e.g., civil, international, national) · Iowa

Elliott Aviation of Des Moines

Des Moines, IA · ~35 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Elliott Aviation of Des Moines runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Airport operators (e.g., civil, international, national) workplace, earning a grade C.

Elliott Aviation of Des Moines: 5.0 TCR = 112% of Airport operators (e.g., civil, international, national) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Elliott Aviation of Des Moines safety composite

Elliott Aviation of Des Moines scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

Elliott Aviation of Des Moines: 2.3 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Elliott Aviation of Des Moines's TCR rose 1.3 from 2.3 in 2021 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 112% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/16
  • PHOTO Prospect Airport Ser…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Prospect Airport Services PHL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Elliott Aviation of Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Elliott Aviation of Des Moines averages 5.0 TCR (112% of the Airport operators (e.g., civil, international, national) BLS benchmark).

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

Elliott Aviation of Des Moines TCR series: 2021=2.3 · 2023=9.2 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Elliott Aviation of Des Moines falls in its industry

1,555 Airport operators (e.g., civil establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 16 Airport operators (e.g., civil employers in Iowa.

Elliott Aviation of Des Moines (35 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Elliott Aviation of Des Moines
Elliott Aviation of Des Moines (35 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Elliott Aviation of Des Moines has fewer employees than the Airport operators (e.g., civil, internat median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 3.6 0.0 1 0 0
2023 9.2 6.1 3 0 0
2021 2.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · IA · Des Moines

1,555 Airport operators (e.g., civil, international, national) 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 Prospect Airport Services PHL 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DGS Aviation Services : VPS - Destin-Fort Walton Beach 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swissport Ground Handling - SFO - SFO-GHA 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 00001355 MAF - 355 MIDLAND INTL AIRPORT 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE IA17-SEL-OSCEOLA HATCHERY' 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience - Algona Research - ALG2 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE JFSNA at ADM Cedar Rapids 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE On Track Construction, LLC 35 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 Lafayette H Otel Associates Del, LLC 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 143015-San Bernardino | CA | SAN-510 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cooper Enterprises Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Royal Foods Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Baltimore, MD 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parkhurst Manufacturing Co., Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cimini & Associates Inc 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wehrung's Macungie 35 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.