Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) · Iowa

Sam'S Riverside Inc

Des Moines, IA · ~32 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sam'S Riverside Inc runs at 426% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) workplace, earning a grade F.

Sam'S Riverside Inc: 14.5 TCR = 426% of Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sam'S Riverside Inc safety composite

Sam'S Riverside Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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)
F 14.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−22.0

2016→2023

Sam'S Riverside Inc injury rate improved

Sam'S Riverside Inc's TCR fell 22.0 from 22.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 37.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=22.0 · 2017=37.8 · 2018=12.7 · 2021=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441310 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.5 · 426% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/17
  • PHOTO Phoenix Battery Serv…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Phoenix Battery Service, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sam'S Riverside Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sam'S Riverside Inc averages 14.5 TCR (426% of the Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) BLS benchmark).

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

Sam'S Riverside Inc TCR series: 2016=22 · 2017=37.8 · 2018=12.7 · 2021=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Sam'S Riverside Inc falls in its industry

1,258 Auto salvage yards (i.e., reta establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #17 safest of 17 Auto salvage yards (i.e., reta employers in Iowa.

Sam'S Riverside Inc (32 employees, TCR 14.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sam'S Riverside Inc
Sam'S Riverside Inc (32 employees, TCR 14.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Sam'S Riverside Inc has more employees than the Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 12.7 4.3 6 0 0
2017 37.8 14.2 8 0 0
2016 22.0 9.8 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441310 · IA · Des Moines

1,258 Auto salvage yards (i.e., retailing used auto parts) 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 Phoenix Battery Service, LLC 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Auto Parts- VA Location 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SANNTDCDIS 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PBY CA Stockdale Town Center 14.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE GSC Agribusiness 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nursery Department- Fuss Office 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley North 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Washington 32 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 Great Western Malting Vancouver 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ALPHA Logistics & Transportation Inc 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Good Food Inc. 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 199 Tukwila 14.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lapp Electric 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE J.H. Cleveland Construction Co 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chimes District of Columbia, Ft. Meade 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cumberland Corral, LLC 32 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, 2021, 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.