New car dealers · Iowa

Mercedes Benz of Des Moines

Urbandale, IA · ~51 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mercedes Benz of Des Moines runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical New car dealers workplace, earning a grade B.

Mercedes Benz of Des Moines: 1.9 TCR = 55% of New car dealers BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mercedes Benz of Des Moines safety composite

Mercedes Benz of Des Moines 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

−3.4

2018→2022

Mercedes Benz of Des Moines injury rate improved

Mercedes Benz of Des Moines's TCR fell 3.4 from 3.4 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.4 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 55% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/31
  • PHOTO Lynn Layton Cadillac…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lynn Layton Cadillac Nissan Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mercedes Benz of Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mercedes Benz of Des Moines averages 1.9 TCR (55% of the New car dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Mercedes Benz of Des Moines TCR series: 2018=3.4 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Mercedes Benz of Des Moines falls in its industry

2,847 New car dealers establishments

Safer than 79% 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 #5 safest of 31 New car dealers employers in Iowa.

Mercedes Benz of Des Moines (51 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 Mercedes Benz of Des Moines
Mercedes Benz of Des Moines (51 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Mercedes Benz of Des Moines has fewer employees than the New car dealers 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.2 0.0 1 0 0
2018 3.4 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · IA · Urbandale

2,847 New car dealers 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 Lynn Layton Cadillac Nissan Inc 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR BCV Motors LLC dba Luther Brookdale Volkswagen 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kia of Port Charlotte 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR BROWN DAUB CHEVROLET OF NAZARETH INC 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Allendan Seed Company 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Falls Truck Wash 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Marion Research MRN1 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE GRS OSI Gen Repair Svc Wind Plt 51 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 Scgll - Greenville 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 1426 - Alliance 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR McIntosh Mechanical, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE HG113 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Infiniti of Hoffman Estates 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG496 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Justice Courts 1-6 51 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, 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.