Sewer and Drain Cleaning, Plumbing, Home Office Administrative functions · Iowa

Roto-Rooter Corporation

West Des Moines, IA · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Roto-Rooter Corporation runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sewer and Drain Cleaning, Plumbing, Home Office Administrative functions workplace, earning a grade B.

Roto-Rooter Corporation: 1.6 TCR = 58% of Sewer and Drain Cleaning, Plumbing, Home Office Administrative functions BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Roto-Rooter Corporation safety composite

Roto-Rooter Corporation scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

Roto-Rooter Corporation: 0.0 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Roto-Rooter Corporation's TCR rose 3.2 from 0.0 in 2023 to 3.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · West Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 58% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #22/94
  • PHOTO Carrier Commercial S…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carrier Commercial Services (Phoenix) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Roto-Rooter Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Roto-Rooter Corporation averages 1.6 TCR (58% of the Sewer and Drain Cleaning, Plumbing, Home Office Administrative functions BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Roto-Rooter Corporation TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Roto-Rooter Corporation falls in its industry

5,793 Sewer and Drain Cleaning, Plum establishments

Safer than 76% 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 #22 safest of 94 Sewer and Drain Cleaning, Plum employers in Iowa.

Roto-Rooter Corporation (35 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Roto-Rooter Corporation
Roto-Rooter Corporation (35 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Roto-Rooter Corporation has fewer employees than the Sewer and Drain Cleaning, Plumbing, Home 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
2024 3.2 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · IA · West Des Moines

5,793 Sewer and Drain Cleaning, Plumbing, Home Office Administrative functions employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 160 employers in West 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 Carrier Commercial Services (Phoenix) 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hardcastle Specialties Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carrier Commercial Services (Centennial) 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tru-Flo Plumbing LLC 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Goodwill Industries of Central Iowa Waukee Retail 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE RidgeView Assisted Living 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE SPEE DEE DELIVERY SERVICE, INC - SIOUX CITY 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goodwill Industries of Central Iowa Ankeny Retail 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hy-Vee, Inc. 73,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wright Tree Service, Inc 4,019 FTE
CITY-NEAR WDMCS 1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR FBL Financial Group Inc., Corporate Headquarters 1,123 FTE
NAT-TCR ICU Medical Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR FXI - West Chicago 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Belt Construction Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR DSS025 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Town & Country Fence Co. of Oregon 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parke County Rural Electric Membership Corporation 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Tank & Mfg. Inc 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maple Shade 10215 35 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.