General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Iowa

Faf Dsm

Des Moines, IA · ~18 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Faf Dsm runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade B.

Faf Dsm: 2.5 TCR = 56% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Faf Dsm safety composite

Faf Dsm scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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)
C 2.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

Faf Dsm held a steady TCR band

Faf Dsm's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=10.2 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 56% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #36/69
  • PHOTO Ocala Terminal
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ocala Terminal (0.0 TCR gap)

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Faf Dsm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Faf Dsm averages 2.5 TCR (56% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Faf Dsm TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=10.2 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Faf Dsm falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 69 General freight trucking, long employers in Iowa.

Faf Dsm (18 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Faf Dsm
Faf Dsm (18 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Faf Dsm has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 10.2 10.2 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IA · Des Moines

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Ocala Terminal 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CVA 39 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tidewater Transit-Savannah 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR GAN-TRANS LTD 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatteras 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Pork 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Orange City OCY1 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE River City Stone 18 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 Doubletree by Hilton Cleveland Downtown Lakeside 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR West Coast ASM 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gatch Electrical Contractors, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Corporate Office 2.5 TCR

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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.