423110 Automobile and Other Motor Vehicle Merchant Wholesalers · Iowa

IA - Des Moines

Altoona, IA · ~88 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

IA - Des Moines runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical 423110 Automobile and Other Motor Vehicle Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

IA - Des Moines: 3.3 TCR = 151% of 423110 Automobile and Other Motor Vehicle Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IA - Des Moines safety composite

IA - Des Moines scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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%).

Rising injury rate

IA - Des Moines: 0.0 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.28× in 2024

IA - Des Moines's TCR rose 3.7 from 0.0 in 2020 to 3.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423110 · Altoona, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.3 · 151% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #10/35
  • PHOTO Vanguard Forest Park
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vanguard Forest Park (0.0 TCR gap)

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IA - Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IA - Des Moines averages 3.3 TCR (151% of the 423110 Automobile and Other Motor Vehicle Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

IA - Des Moines TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=3 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 2.2

Where IA - Des Moines falls in its industry

1,333 423110 Automobile and Other Mo establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 35 423110 Automobile and Other Mo employers in Iowa.

IA - Des Moines (88 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate IA - Des Moines
IA - Des Moines (88 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3

IA - Des Moines has more employees than the 423110 Automobile and Other Motor Vehicl median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2024 3.7 0.9 4 0 0
2023 5.8 4.8 6 0 0
2022 4.1 2.0 4 0 0
2021 3.0 2.0 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423110 · IA · Altoona

1,333 423110 Automobile and Other Motor Vehicle Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 52 employers in Altoona, 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 Vanguard Forest Park 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3203 RTC NORTH LITTLE ROCK 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Michigan Kenworth - Dearborn 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 12 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc - Reinbeck SPSC 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE McCarthy Improvement Company 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rasmussen Mechanical Services CB 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Letica-Iowa 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casion 1,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adventureland Resort 1,040 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino, Inc. 965 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Meadows Racetrack, Casino & Hotel 877 FTE
NAT-TCR KJ's Market #608 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Vecellio & Grogan_Job# 1000208 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0374 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0697 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sierra Rental and Transport Company 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grasshopper House LLC 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-2388 Mason Ave 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Omyal Express LLC 88 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, 2021, 2020. 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.