Ambulance and fire service combined · Iowa

Fire Station 8

Name: Fire Station 8 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Des Moines, IA · ~29 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 13.7
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Fire Station 8 runs at 429% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Fire Station 8: 13.7 TCR = 429% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire Station 8 safety composite

Fire Station 8 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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).

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 13.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers
DART rate: F 8.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Fire Station 8: 9.8 → 11.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 27.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2023

Fire Station 8's TCR rose 1.6 from 9.8 in 2016 to 11.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 27.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 13.7 · 429% of ind

DART 8.6 DART
RANK #12/18
PHOTO Training Center
BOOK 4y book
INJ 15 inj
SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Training Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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718 SUGAR GROV

13.8
This site

13.7
Training Cente

13.7
Colona Communi

13.7
Bloomfield Tow

13.7

What this shows Fire Station 8 averages 13.7 TCR (429% of the Ambulance and fire service combined BLS benchmark).

Fire Station 8 TCR series: 2016=9.8 · 2017=6.5 · 2018=27.2 · 2023=11.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Station 8 falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 18 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Iowa.

Fire Station 8 (29 employees, TCR 13.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire Station 8 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
2023	11.4	8.6	3	1
2018	27.2	21.2	7	2
2017	6.5	6.5	2	0
2016	9.8	6.5	3	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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Training Center	PUYALLUP, WA	13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Colona Community Fire Protection District	COLONA, IL	13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bloomfield Township Central Fire Station	BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI	13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	718 SUGAR GROVE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT	SUGAR GROVE, IL	13.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	FDML Forest City 0016	FOREST CITY	29 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Dogwood Sow Unit	CHESTER	29 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Southwood Sow Unit	SUMNER	29 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Montgomery Valley Farms	VILLISCA	29 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Corporate Center	Des Moines	6,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines	Des Moines	4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MercyOne Des Moines	Des Moines	3,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Des Moines Methodist Hospital	Des Moines	3,495 FTE
NAT-TCR	Pan-O-Gold Baking Company-Plymouth, MN	Plymouth, MN	13.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Griffith Observatory Maint	Los Angeles, CA	13.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	BU 740 Brighton	Brighton, TN	13.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	4054-ABS-0020-0021-04286	Fort Worth, TX	13.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Classi-Co Foods	New Castle, PA	29 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Copper Creek Landscaping, Inc	Spokane, WA	29 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bryan TX FXFE-BRY	Somerville, TX	29 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Duluth MN	Duluth, MN	29 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.