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

Fas Dsm

Des Moines, IA · ~26 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fas Dsm runs at 241% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade F.

Fas Dsm: 10.8 TCR = 241% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fas Dsm safety composite

Fas Dsm scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 22.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Fas Dsm: 0.0 → 22.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 22.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.09× in 2019

Fas Dsm's TCR rose 22.6 from 0.0 in 2016 to 22.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 2.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 241% of ind

  • DART 22.6 DART
  • RANK #66/69
  • PHOTO 18
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 18 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fas Dsm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fas Dsm averages 10.8 TCR (241% 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

Fas Dsm TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=20.7 · 2019=22.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Fas Dsm falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #66 safest of 69 General freight trucking, long employers in Iowa.

Fas Dsm (26 employees, TCR 10.8) 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 Fas Dsm
Fas Dsm (26 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Fas Dsm has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a higher 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 22.6 22.6 6 0 0
2018 20.7 20.7 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 18 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6223-635 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MI-Milan-Georgia Pacific 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Salt Lake Terminal 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eastwood Sow Unit 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4806-Urbandale, IA 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE DBQ Downtown Office 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Iowa Electric Cooperative 26 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 Cast Metals Technology 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Birko Corporation - Henderson 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 5063 - MA Suffolk County House of Corrections 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Administration 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Paper & Ink of PA LLC dba Applegate Mfg 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frank Bevins Painting 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hayden WECO 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE George Lay Signs, Inc. 26 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: 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.