Other Support Activities for Air Transportation · Iowa

Iadap - Des Moines Airport

Des Moines, IA · ~63 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Iadap - Des Moines Airport runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Support Activities for Air Transportation workplace, earning a grade D.

Iadap - Des Moines Airport: 6.2 TCR = 137% of Other Support Activities for Air Transportation BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iadap - Des Moines Airport safety composite

Iadap - Des Moines Airport scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−12.4

2019→2024

Iadap - Des Moines Airport injury rate improved

Iadap - Des Moines Airport's TCR fell 12.4 from 12.4 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=12.4 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=7.4 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488190 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 137% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO Cadorath Aerospace L…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cadorath Aerospace Lafayette LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Iadap - Des Moines Airport in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Iadap - Des Moines Airport averages 6.2 TCR (137% of the Other Support Activities for Air Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

Iadap - Des Moines Airport TCR series: 2019=12.4 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=7.4 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Iadap - Des Moines Airport falls in its industry

992 Other Support Activities for A establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Other Support Activities for A employers in Iowa.

Iadap - Des Moines Airport (63 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Iadap - Des Moines Airport
Iadap - Des Moines Airport (63 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Iadap - Des Moines Airport has fewer employees than the Other Support Activities for Air Transpo median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 7.5 3.7 1 1 0
2022 7.4 3.7 1 1 0
2021 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2019 12.4 8.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488190 · IA · Des Moines

992 Other Support Activities for Air Transportation 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 Cadorath Aerospace Lafayette LLC 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR FLL 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DTW DETROIT METROPOLITAN AIRPORT 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tyonek Services Group Inc. Oceana 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cherokee-US-Production 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Lakes Electric Cooperative 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Iowa, LLC 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keen Project Solutions 63 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 Mache - Chelmsford 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Paphi - Philadelphia 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Caoly - Olympic 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mnstc - Saint Cloud 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gawar - Warrenton 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Photo-Sonics, Inc. 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wapor - Port Angeles 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mnwil - Willmar 63 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.