Government - Transportation · Iowa

Iowa DOT - Des Moines North Garage

Des Moines, IA · ~25 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Iowa DOT - Des Moines North Garage runs at 276% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Government - Transportation workplace, earning a grade F.

Iowa DOT - Des Moines North Garage: 8.8 TCR = 276% of Government - Transportation BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iowa DOT - Des Moines North Garage safety composite

Iowa DOT - Des Moines North Garage scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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).

F

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Iowa DOT - Des Moines North Garage: 4.1 → 13.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 13.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.53× in 2022

Iowa DOT - Des Moines North Garage's TCR rose 9.4 from 4.1 in 2019 to 13.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 926120 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 276% of ind

  • DART 13.5 DART
  • RANK #14/15
  • PHOTO Minnesota Department…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Minnesota Department of Transportation District 6. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Iowa DOT - Des Moines North Garage in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Iowa DOT - Des Moines North Garage averages 8.8 TCR (276% of the Government - Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

Iowa DOT - Des Moines North Garage TCR series: 2019=4.1 · 2020=13.2 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=13.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Iowa DOT - Des Moines North Garage falls in its industry

208 Government - Transportation establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 15 Government - Transportation employers in Iowa.

Iowa DOT - Des Moines North Garage (25 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Iowa DOT - Des Moines North Garage
Iowa DOT - Des Moines North Garage (25 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Iowa DOT - Des Moines North Garage has fewer employees than the Government - Transportation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2022 13.5 13.5 3 0 0
2021 4.5 4.5 1 0 0
2020 13.2 13.2 3 0 0
2019 4.1 4.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

926120 · IA · Des Moines

208 Government - 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 Minnesota Department of Transportation District 6. 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities (42) 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities (9) 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Revel Transit 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE WCT-Crystal Lake 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oskaloosa Service Center 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Power 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Consumers Energy 25 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 108 Pompano Beach 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03234 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03219 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03181 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Zbn King Machine of North Carolina 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metal Management Indiana - ECI Facility 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arkema - NKC 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stedman Sheet Metal Inc. 25 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.