General Warehousing and Storage · Iowa

IA - Bayer (Des Moines)

Des Moines, IA · ~74 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

IA - Bayer (Des Moines) runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General Warehousing and Storage workplace, earning a grade A.

IA - Bayer (Des Moines): 1.9 TCR = 33% of General Warehousing and Storage BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IA - Bayer (Des Moines) safety composite

IA - Bayer (Des Moines) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

−1.3

2022→2023

IA - Bayer (Des Moines) injury rate improved

IA - Bayer (Des Moines)'s TCR fell 1.3 from 2.6 in 2022 to 1.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.6 · 2023=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493110 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.9 · 33% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #28/102
  • PHOTO 1350 West Grand Ave …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1350 West Grand Ave Oakland CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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IA - Bayer (Des Moines) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IA - Bayer (Des Moines) averages 1.9 TCR (33% of the General Warehousing and Storage BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

IA - Bayer (Des Moines) TCR series: 2022=2.6 · 2023=1.3 · BLS 5.8

Where IA - Bayer (Des Moines) falls in its industry

9,477 General Warehousing and Storag establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 102 General Warehousing and Storag employers in Iowa.

IA - Bayer (Des Moines) (74 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate IA - Bayer (Des Moines)
IA - Bayer (Des Moines) (74 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5

IA - Bayer (Des Moines) has fewer employees than the General Warehousing and Storage median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2022 2.6 2.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493110 · IA · Des Moines

9,477 General Warehousing and Storage 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 1350 West Grand Ave Oakland CA 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR NA-US-CA-Santa Clara-700 Laurelwood Rd 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kroger Fullerton 4625 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - BDU2 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE City of Ames - Fire Department 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Conveyor 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quartet Senior Living 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE XCR 74 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 Paterson Wa (Watts Dairy) 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR IPD Packaging Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Chicago 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Control Sensors, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE CA - Adidas (Colton) 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jerry Durant CBG, LLC 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Wilson Bohannan Company 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legacy at Maiden Park 74 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.