Ambulance and fire service combined · Iowa

Fire Station 5

Des Moines, IA · ~22 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
26.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Station 5 runs at 831% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Fire Station 5: 26.6 TCR = 831% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire Station 5 safety composite

Fire Station 5 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 26.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 29.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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%).

Fire Station 5 held a steady TCR band

Fire Station 5's TCR held near 0.1 from 33.6 in 2016 to 33.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=33.6 · 2017=15.5 · 2018=23.5 · 2023=33.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 26.6 · 831% of ind

  • DART 29.5 DART
  • RANK #18/18
  • PHOTO SOUTHERN REGION : TCU
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SOUTHERN REGION : TCU (0.2 TCR gap)

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Fire Station 5 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fire Station 5 averages 26.6 TCR (831% of the Ambulance and fire service combined BLS benchmark).

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

Fire Station 5 TCR series: 2016=33.6 · 2017=15.5 · 2018=23.5 · 2023=33.7 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Station 5 falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 18 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Iowa.

Fire Station 5 (22 employees, TCR 26.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8 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 Fire Station 5
Fire Station 5 (22 employees, TCR 26.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire Station 5 has fewer employees than the Ambulance and fire service combined median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.8. 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
2023 33.7 29.5 7 1 0
2018 23.5 18.8 5 0 0
2017 15.5 11.6 4 0 0
2016 33.6 21.0 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IA · Des Moines

793 Ambulance and fire service combined 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 SOUTHERN REGION : TCU 26.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of New Haven FIRE 525 Howard Avenue 27.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR VFD Fire Station 5 25.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eugene/Springfield - Fire Station 5 27.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Mt. Ayr) 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kevin D. Moellers 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sheldon 22 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 244 Danbury 26.6 TCR
NAT-TCR DAL - Ground Ops 26.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pw Utilities - Sewer Line Maintenance 26.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZCAD 26.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Valley Sod Farms, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE DB Electrical 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rancho Tmescal 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jack James Towing, Inc. 22 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: 2023, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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