municipal public works · Iowa

Public Works Compound

Des Moines, IA · ~248 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Public Works Compound runs at 405% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical municipal public works workplace, earning a grade F.

Public Works Compound: 18.2 TCR = 405% of municipal public works BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Works Compound safety composite

Public Works Compound scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Public Works Compound: 14.8 → 23.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 23.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2018

Public Works Compound's TCR rose 8.6 from 14.8 in 2016 to 23.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488490 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 18.2 · 405% of ind

  • DART 17.3 DART
  • RANK #13/13
  • PHOTO DELIVERIES BY DMIV
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 96 inj
  • SIZE ~248 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DELIVERIES BY DMIV (0.0 TCR gap)

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Public Works Compound in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Public Works Compound averages 18.2 TCR (405% of the municipal public works BLS benchmark).

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

Public Works Compound TCR series: 2016=14.8 · 2017=16.4 · 2018=23.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Public Works Compound falls in its industry

370 municipal public works establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 13 municipal public works employers in Iowa.

Public Works Compound (248 employees, TCR 18.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Public Works Compound
Public Works Compound (248 employees, TCR 18.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Public Works Compound has more employees than the municipal public works median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2018 23.5 17.3 38 4 0
2017 16.4 8.5 28 1 0
2016 14.8 11.4 30 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488490 · IA · Des Moines

370 municipal public works 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 DELIVERIES BY DMIV 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR M-2 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Box Delivery LLC 18.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scudetto Logistics LLC 18.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hillphoenix, Inc 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schenker Logistics, Iowa City/West Branch 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE Good Shepherd Geriatric Center 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bathany Manor 248 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 Pete Vander Poel Dairy 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 0470 - Spring Hill, Fl 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Complete Care at Silver Lake 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Department of Public Works 18.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE TX.HOUST.406 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kuehne + Nagel Inc. (INDP-6437) 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE HNY Ferry LLC 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-PD-ROA-ROANOKE-PD 248 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.