Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers · Iowa

NW Paper and Light WP131 WL141, WL147- Des Moines IA

Name: NW Paper and Light WP131 WL141, WL147- Des Moines IA Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Des Moines, IA · ~52 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 0.0
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

NW Paper and Light WP131 WL141, WL147- Des Moines IA runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

NW Paper and Light WP131 WL141, WL147- Des Moines IA: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NW Paper and Light WP131 WL141, WL147- Des Moines IA safety composite

NW Paper and Light WP131 WL141, WL147- Des Moines IA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% 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).

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

NW Paper and Light WP131 WL141, WL147- Des Moines IA held a steady TCR band

NW Paper and Light WP131 WL141, WL147- Des Moines IA's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.0 TCR.

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #0/11
PHOTO Hydrite Chemical Co.…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 0 inj
SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hydrite Chemical Co. HQ - Brookfield WI (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hydrite Chemic

0.1
Nexeo Solution

0.1
Pronto

0.1
Ellsworth Corp

0.1
This site

0

What this shows NW Paper and Light WP131 WL141, WL147- Des Moines IA averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

NW Paper and Light WP131 WL141, WL147- Des Moines IA TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · BLS 2.2

Where NW Paper and Light WP131 WL141, WL147- Des Moines IA falls in its industry

766 Industrial chemicals merchant establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 11 Industrial chemicals merchant employers in Iowa.

NW Paper and Light WP131 WL141, WL147- Des Moines IA (52 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

NW Paper and Light WP131 WL141, WL147- Des Moines IA has more employees than the Industrial chemicals merchant wholesaler median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2017	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2016	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · IA · Des Moines

766 Industrial chemicals merchant wholesalers 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Hydrite Chemical Co. HQ - Brookfield WI	BROOKFIELD, WI	0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Nexeo Solutions - The Woodlands	THE WOODLANDS, TX	0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pronto	ODESSA, TX	0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ellsworth Corporation - Germantown, Wisconsin	GERMANTOWN, WI	0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	KE Flatwork Inc.	ELDRIDGE	52 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WNADGL, LLC	CEDAR FALLS	52 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Earth Services & Abatement	DES MOINES	52 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Snappy Popcorn	BREDA	52 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Corporate Center	Des Moines	6,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines	Des Moines	4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MercyOne Des Moines	Des Moines	3,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Des Moines Methodist Hospital	Des Moines	3,495 FTE
NAT-TCR	Aviation Other : Virtual Employee Roll-Up Site	Cincinnati, OH	0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	AZ-01	Phoenix, AZ	0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	CT-02	Stamford, CT	0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	NJ-05	Ewing Township, NJ	0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Rocky Mountain Stonework, Inc.	Estes Park, CO	52 FTE
NAT-SIZE	N and R of Hartville LLC	Hartville, MO	52 FTE
NAT-SIZE	N and R of Sikeston at Clearview Inc	Sikeston, MO	52 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Buckhead Meat of North Carolina	Charlotte, NC	52 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.