Meat grinders, food-type, manufacturing · Iowa

Marel, Inc. Des Moines

Des Moines, IA · ~91 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Marel, Inc. Des Moines runs at 22% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Meat grinders, food-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Marel, Inc. Des Moines: 0.7 TCR = 22% of Meat grinders, food-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Marel, Inc. Des Moines safety composite

Marel, Inc. Des Moines scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% 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%).

Marel, Inc. Des Moines held a steady TCR band

Marel, Inc. Des Moines's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333241 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 22% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/15
  • PHOTO Tetra Pak Inc. - Ver…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tetra Pak Inc. - Vernon Hills (0.0 TCR gap)

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Marel, Inc. Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Marel, Inc. Des Moines averages 0.7 TCR (22% of the Meat grinders, food-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Marel, Inc. Des Moines TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=2.1 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Marel, Inc. Des Moines falls in its industry

215 Meat grinders, food-type, manu establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 15 Meat grinders, food-type, manu employers in Iowa.

Marel, Inc. Des Moines (91 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Marel, Inc. Des Moines
Marel, Inc. Des Moines (91 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Marel, Inc. Des Moines has more employees than the Meat grinders, food-type, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.1 2.1 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333241 · IA · Des Moines

215 Meat grinders, food-type, manufacturing 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 Tetra Pak Inc. - Vernon Hills 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR UltraSource LLC 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Winland Foods Milwaukee 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR JBT Foodtech Kingston 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trans Ova Genetics LC 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sioux City Neal North 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Louisa Generating Station 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ames-West Operating 91 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 Industrial Mechanical Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Canton ORR Protection 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 631 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Gates Corporation 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE MPS Anzon LLC 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE TF METAL USA LLC (Formally Known As Fuji Autotech USA) 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sher-Rockee Mushroom Farms,LLC 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Springs at Crystal Lake 91 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: 2020, 2019, 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.