Herbicides manufacturing · Iowa

Helena Industries Incorported - Des Moines

Des Moines, IA · ~152 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Helena Industries Incorported - Des Moines runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Herbicides manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Helena Industries Incorported - Des Moines: 3.1 TCR = 94% of Herbicides manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Helena Industries Incorported - Des Moines safety composite

Helena Industries Incorported - Des Moines scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Helena Industries Incorported - Des Moines held a steady TCR band

Helena Industries Incorported - Des Moines's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.3 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.3 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.3 · 2017=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325320 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 94% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #4/11
  • PHOTO Kocide
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~152 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kocide (0.1 TCR gap)

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Helena Industries Incorported - Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Helena Industries Incorported - Des Moines averages 3.1 TCR (94% of the Herbicides manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Helena Industries Incorported - Des Moines TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2017=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Helena Industries Incorported - Des Moines falls in its industry

145 Herbicides manufacturing establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 11 Herbicides manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Helena Industries Incorported - Des Moines (152 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Helena Industries Incorported - Des Moines
Helena Industries Incorported - Des Moines (152 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Helena Industries Incorported - Des Moines has more employees than the Herbicides manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2017 2.9 1.8 4 1 0
2016 3.3 2.0 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325320 · IA · Des Moines

145 Herbicides manufacturing 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 Kocide 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tessenderlo Kerley Fresno, CA 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wisconsin Pharmacal Company 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR AgroChem 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bill Whitters Construction Company 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sigler Companies 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE BERRYQDC 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE Group A 152 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 Legends - Northerly Island 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Global Services Supply Chain Operations : UX-Grove City, PA 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Jacksonville Center (Ncjac) 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR New York 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mke Air Gateway (Wiair) 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kennewick Office (Wakwk) 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richmond (Vampk) 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richfield (Ohric) 152 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: 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.