Automobile dealers, new only or new and used · Iowa

GATR Truck Center of Des Moines

Waukee, IA · ~52 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GATR Truck Center of Des Moines runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Automobile dealers, new only or new and used workplace, earning a grade D.

GATR Truck Center of Des Moines: 5.6 TCR = 165% of Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GATR Truck Center of Des Moines safety composite

GATR Truck Center of Des Moines scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2022→2023

GATR Truck Center of Des Moines injury rate improved

GATR Truck Center of Des Moines's TCR fell 0.7 from 5.9 in 2022 to 5.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.9 · 2023=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Waukee, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 165% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #23/31
  • PHOTO DeMontrond Auto Group
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DeMontrond Auto Group (0.0 TCR gap)

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GATR Truck Center of Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GATR Truck Center of Des Moines averages 5.6 TCR (165% of the Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS benchmark).

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

GATR Truck Center of Des Moines TCR series: 2022=5.9 · 2023=5.3 · BLS 3.4

Where GATR Truck Center of Des Moines falls in its industry

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only o establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 31 Automobile dealers, new only o employers in Iowa.

GATR Truck Center of Des Moines (52 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate GATR Truck Center of Des Moines
GATR Truck Center of Des Moines (52 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

GATR Truck Center of Des Moines has fewer employees than the Automobile dealers, new only or new and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 5.3 1.8 3 0 0
2022 5.9 4.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · IA · Waukee

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only or new and used employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 21 employers in Waukee, 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 DeMontrond Auto Group 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2819 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Haley Ford 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR White's Energy Motors 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE KE Flatwork Inc. 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE WNADGL, LLC 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Earth Services & Abatement 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Snappy Popcorn 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waukee - Main Store 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waukee 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3079 CENTRAL REGION-WAUKEE IA 147 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2662-3079 147 FTE
NAT-TCR 8001 Carrolton Gateway Tire of Texas 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Comal Health Care Center Ltd. Co. d/b/a Sundance Inn Health Center 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Magna Engineered Glass 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Area Erectors - Chicago 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Atascadero Pet Hospital and Emergency Center 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Green Bay 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE L&M Farms of South Florida, LLC-Labelle 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #0689 52 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, 2022. 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.