General Warehousing and Storage · Iowa

IA - John Deere

Des Moines, IA · ~109 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

IA - John Deere runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General Warehousing and Storage workplace, earning a grade B.

IA - John Deere: 3.1 TCR = 53% of General Warehousing and Storage BLS 5.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IA - John Deere safety composite

IA - John Deere scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

IA - John Deere: 2.8 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2020

IA - John Deere's TCR rose 2.7 from 2.8 in 2017 to 5.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 3.1 · 53% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #48/102
  • PHOTO Volvo Group Logistics
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Volvo Group Logistics (0.0 TCR gap)

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IA - John Deere in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IA - John Deere averages 3.1 TCR (53% of the General Warehousing and Storage BLS benchmark).

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

IA - John Deere TCR series: 2017=2.8 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=5.5 · BLS 5.8

Where IA - John Deere falls in its industry

9,477 General Warehousing and Storag establishments

Safer than 55% 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 #48 safest of 102 General Warehousing and Storag employers in Iowa.

IA - John Deere (109 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 - John Deere
IA - John Deere (109 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5

IA - John Deere has more 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
2020 5.5 4.6 6 0 0
2019 1.4 0.7 2 0 0
2018 2.6 0.9 3 0 0
2017 2.8 2.8 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 Volvo Group Logistics 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MICHAELS DISTRIBUTION CENTER #4 - LANCASTER 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR DWK Life Sciences, LLC - N 10th Street Millville, NJ 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Branch 4597 - Saint Petersburg 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2515-Grinnell, IA 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michael Foods 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Engineering-Council Bluffs 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Absolute Group - Concrete Division 109 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 Evans & Associates Utility Services, Inc. - Lawton 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR West-Mark Manufacturing 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1189 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1120 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 131 Chambersbrook Road 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boca Ciega Rehabilitation Center, LLC 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE FI - Sanford Rehab, LLC 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10521 Drummond Rd 109 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.