Blood donor stations · Iowa

LifeServe Blood Center - Des Moines

Des Moines, IA · ~179 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LifeServe Blood Center - Des Moines runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Blood donor stations workplace, earning a grade D.

LifeServe Blood Center - Des Moines: 6.9 TCR = 181% of Blood donor stations BLS 3.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LifeServe Blood Center - Des Moines safety composite

LifeServe Blood Center - Des Moines scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

LifeServe Blood Center - Des Moines: 2.9 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.41× in 2023

LifeServe Blood Center - Des Moines's TCR rose 2.0 from 2.9 in 2017 to 4.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621991 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.9 · 181% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #24/48
  • PHOTO ILMOLI-OPI-MOLINE
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~179 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ILMOLI-OPI-MOLINE (0.0 TCR gap)

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LifeServe Blood Center - Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LifeServe Blood Center - Des Moines averages 6.9 TCR (181% of the Blood donor stations BLS benchmark).

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

LifeServe Blood Center - Des Moines TCR series: 2017=2.9 · 2019=9.9 · 2021=9.7 · 2023=4.9 · BLS 3.8

Where LifeServe Blood Center - Des Moines falls in its industry

1,713 Blood donor stations establishments

Safer than 24% 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 #24 safest of 48 Blood donor stations employers in Iowa.

LifeServe Blood Center - Des Moines (179 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate LifeServe Blood Center - Des Moines
LifeServe Blood Center - Des Moines (179 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3

LifeServe Blood Center - Des Moines has more employees than the Blood donor stations median and a higher 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
2023 4.9 2.8 7 0 0
2021 9.7 2.2 13 0 0
2019 9.9 0.7 11 4 0
2017 2.9 2.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621991 · IA · Des Moines

1,713 Blood donor stations 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 ILMOLI-OPI-MOLINE 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tulsa, OK-Biolife 757 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cheyenne, WY-BioLife 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Melbourne Biotest Plasma Center 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sioux City - Corporate Office - SC 179 FTE
STATE-SIZE OTTUMWA IA - 3185 179 FTE
STATE-SIZE CO-OP Financial Call Center 179 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mercy Clive Rehabilitation Hospital - 3859 179 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 Gonvauto SC LLC 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Skies of Texas 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR DoubleTree Westborough 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR FPH Construction, Inc. 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amneal Hauppauge 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hatzel & Buehler Inc. - East Norriton 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newport Subacute Healthcare Center 179 FTE
NAT-SIZE Engineered Materials : San Diego 179 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: 2023, 2021, 2019, 2017. 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.