Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · Iowa

Police Administration

Des Moines, IA · ~439 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
3
Fatalities
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The verdict

Police Administration runs at 454% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

Police Administration: 14.5 TCR = 454% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Police Administration safety composite

Police Administration scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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).

F

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 3

Safer than 1% 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%).

Police Administration held a steady TCR band

Police Administration's TCR held near 0.3 from 15.0 in 2016 to 15.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=15.0 · 2017=13.0 · 2018=14.8 · 2023=15.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.5 · 454% of ind

  • DART 9.3 DART
  • RANK #15/18
  • PHOTO Police
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 198 inj
  • SIZE ~439 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Police (0.0 TCR gap)

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Police Administration in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Police Administration averages 14.5 TCR (454% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

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

Police Administration TCR series: 2016=15 · 2017=13 · 2018=14.8 · 2023=15.3 · BLS 3.2

Where Police Administration falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 18 Police departments (except Ame employers in Iowa.

Police Administration (439 employees, TCR 14.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Police Administration
Police Administration (439 employees, TCR 14.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Police Administration has more employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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
2023 15.3 9.3 47 9 0
2018 14.8 6.0 52 2 0
2017 13.0 8.0 46 1 0
2016 15.0 6.8 53 2 3

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · IA · Des Moines

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) 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 Police 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Hope Police Department 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plainville Police Department 14.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Metro Store 439 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waterloo Human Services 439 FTE
STATE-SIZE AIORIA - Orange City, IA SPP 438 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raymond-Muscatine, Inc. 438 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 Southern Forest Products LLC 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR HG287 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Specialty Bakers LLC 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 4 14.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE PNW Veg Co., dba Quincy Foods 439 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foodservice : Stockton-Performance 439 FTE
NAT-SIZE Information Technology Agency 439 FTE
NAT-SIZE International Flavors and Fragrances 439 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: 2023, 2018, 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.