General freight trucking, local · Iowa

Panama Transfer Des Moines

Des Moines, IA · ~31 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Panama Transfer Des Moines runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade C.

Panama Transfer Des Moines: 4.6 TCR = 103% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Panama Transfer Des Moines safety composite

Panama Transfer Des Moines scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Panama Transfer Des Moines: 4.0 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.41× in 2021

Panama Transfer Des Moines's TCR rose 2.5 from 4.0 in 2019 to 6.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.6 · 103% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #22/34
  • PHOTO BLACKHAWK TRANSPORT …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BLACKHAWK TRANSPORT FUYAO IL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Panama Transfer Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Panama Transfer Des Moines averages 4.6 TCR (103% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

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

Panama Transfer Des Moines TCR series: 2019=4 · 2020=3.3 · 2021=6.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Panama Transfer Des Moines falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 34 General freight trucking, loca employers in Iowa.

Panama Transfer Des Moines (31 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Panama Transfer Des Moines
Panama Transfer Des Moines (31 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Panama Transfer Des Moines has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2021 6.5 6.5 2 0 0
2020 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2019 4.0 4.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · IA · Des Moines

2,784 General freight trucking, local 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 BLACKHAWK TRANSPORT FUYAO IL 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kingdom Servants Inc dba FutureVision USA 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Distributors Leasing, Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR HDS-DeKalb 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dupont - Pioneer Johnston Parent 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE MBS Genetics, LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE MiEnergy Cooperative - Iowa 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oelwein 31 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 AWS- Santa Clara County 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dick Houston Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dept. of Health & Social Services (12) 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Christie Cookie Company 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Greensburg Family Based Services 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue Bucket Trucking LLC-Nj Drivers 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pallet Consultants of NC Dunn 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE FedeX Office Teterboro NJ Manufacturing Plant 31 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.