Automobile dealers, new only or new and used · Iowa

Lithia of Des Moines Inc

Urbandale, IA · ~48 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lithia of Des Moines Inc runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Automobile dealers, new only or new and used workplace, earning a grade C.

Lithia of Des Moines Inc: 2.8 TCR = 82% of Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lithia of Des Moines Inc safety composite

Lithia of Des Moines Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−3.7

2018→2024

Lithia of Des Moines Inc injury rate improved

Lithia of Des Moines Inc's TCR fell 3.7 from 3.7 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.7 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Urbandale, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 82% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/31
  • PHOTO bmw of ramsey
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: bmw of ramsey (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lithia of Des Moines Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lithia of Des Moines Inc averages 2.8 TCR (82% of the Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS benchmark).

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

Lithia of Des Moines Inc TCR series: 2018=3.7 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Lithia of Des Moines Inc falls in its industry

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only o establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 31 Automobile dealers, new only o employers in Iowa.

Lithia of Des Moines Inc (48 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Lithia of Des Moines Inc
Lithia of Des Moines Inc (48 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Lithia of Des Moines Inc has fewer employees than the Automobile dealers, new only or new and median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 4.7 0.0 2 0 0
2018 3.7 3.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · IA · Urbandale

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only or new and used employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 104 employers in Urbandale, 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 bmw of ramsey 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR John Jones Chevrolet Buick of Corydon, INC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR GDM Imports, Inc (DBA: McGrath Volvo Cars of Barrington) 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kendall Subaru - Eugene 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE J&J Cattle Co 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMVC Management Services 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Administration Building 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greiner Buildings, Inc. 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISG Urbandale 786 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Manufacturing Corporation 612 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mosaic Urbandale/Nevada 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR URBANDALE IA 352 FTE
NAT-TCR EMS - Cherrywood Pointe Lexing 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lornamead 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kenosha Wi Sales Center 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Valvoline Santa Fe Springs 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Synear Foods USA LLC 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eureka Motors, Inc 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Specialty Metals Processing 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE F-Wave, LLC 48 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, 2018. 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.