Couriers and Express Delivery Services · Iowa

Iaame - Ames

Ames, IA · ~100 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
12.4
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Iaame - Ames runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Couriers and Express Delivery Services workplace, earning a grade D.

Iaame - Ames: 12.4 TCR = 190% of Couriers and Express Delivery Services BLS 6.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iaame - Ames safety composite

Iaame - Ames scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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)
F 12.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−20.4

2019→2024

Iaame - Ames injury rate improved

Iaame - Ames's TCR fell 20.4 from 26.4 in 2019 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 26.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=26.4 · 2020=15.1 · 2021=10.3 · 2022=12.0 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 12.4 · 190% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #59/82
  • PHOTO Amazon.com Services …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 53 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amazon.com Services LLC - DML3 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Iaame - Ames in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Iaame - Ames averages 12.4 TCR (190% of the Couriers and Express Delivery Services BLS benchmark).

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

Iaame - Ames TCR series: 2019=26.4 · 2020=15.1 · 2021=10.3 · 2022=12 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=6 · BLS 6.5

Where Iaame - Ames falls in its industry

6,679 Couriers and Express Delivery establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #59 safest of 82 Couriers and Express Delivery employers in Iowa.

Iaame - Ames (100 employees, TCR 12.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Iaame - Ames
Iaame - Ames (100 employees, TCR 12.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Iaame - Ames has fewer employees than the Couriers and Express Delivery Services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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 6.0 6.0 4 0 0
2023 4.4 1.5 3 0 0
2022 12.0 9.4 9 0 0
2021 10.3 6.4 8 0 0
2020 15.1 11.0 11 0 0
2019 26.4 16.1 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · IA · Ames

6,679 Couriers and Express Delivery Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 170 employers in Ames, 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 Amazon.com Services LLC - DML3 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TXCKL - CHALK HILL 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NYSTI - STATEN ISLAND 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR KYHAZ - HAZARD 12.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Weitz Company, LLC. - Mission Critical 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE JFSNA at ADM Clinton 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE All Star Concrete 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Plant 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - University Wide 13,316 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - On Campus 12,527 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center- Main Hospital 1,415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center 1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR Kyhaz - Hazard 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Nysti - Staten Island 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Txckl - Chalk Hill 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pleasant View Center 12.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Txwic - Wichita Falls 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oksha - Shawnee 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anaheim CA 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pahom - Hometown 100 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, 2019. 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.