Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Hillyard Co. - Des Moines

Urbandale, IA · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hillyard Co. - Des Moines runs at 313% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Hillyard Co. - Des Moines: 6.9 TCR = 313% of Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hillyard Co. - Des Moines safety composite

Hillyard Co. - Des Moines scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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 6.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hillyard Co. - Des Moines: 0.0 → 10.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.55× in 2024

Hillyard Co. - Des Moines's TCR rose 10.7 from 0.0 in 2022 to 10.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Urbandale, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 313% of ind

  • DART 10.7 DART
  • RANK #9/11
  • PHOTO 01-NCA
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 01-NCA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hillyard Co. - Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hillyard Co. - Des Moines averages 6.9 TCR (313% of the Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Hillyard Co. - Des Moines TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=10 · 2024=10.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Hillyard Co. - Des Moines falls in its industry

766 Chemicals (except agriculture) establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 11 Chemicals (except agriculture) employers in Iowa.

Hillyard Co. - Des Moines (24 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hillyard Co. - Des Moines
Hillyard Co. - Des Moines (24 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Hillyard Co. - Des Moines has fewer employees than the Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., au median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2024 10.7 10.7 2 0 0
2023 10.0 5.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · IA · Urbandale

766 Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 104 employers in Urbandale, 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 01-NCA 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Denver, CO 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Solvents & Petroleum Service, Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Source Worldwide, LLC 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Afton Warehouse 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwood Sow Unit 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belmond 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clarion, IA 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISG Urbandale 786 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Manufacturing Corporation 612 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mosaic Urbandale/Nevada 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR URBANDALE IA 352 FTE
NAT-TCR Distribution Center 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Keystone Potato Products LLC 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Story Land 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR B16 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Boyesen 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tennessee Crown Distributing Co. (Chattanooga) 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Genesee County Water Treatment Plant 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE House of Passage 24 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. 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.