Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Iowa

TMC Transportation - Corporate

Des Moines, IA · ~2,208 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TMC Transportation - Corporate runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

TMC Transportation - Corporate: 2.0 TCR = 44% of Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TMC Transportation - Corporate safety composite

TMC Transportation - Corporate scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 53%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−1.0

2019→2024

TMC Transportation - Corporate injury rate improved

TMC Transportation - Corporate's TCR fell 1.0 from 3.3 in 2019 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.3 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 44% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #28/69
  • PHOTO Cranbury, NJ - Cranb…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 356 inj
  • SIZE ~2,208 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cranbury, NJ - Cranbury Statio (0.0 TCR gap)

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TMC Transportation - Corporate in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TMC Transportation - Corporate averages 2.0 TCR (44% of the Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

TMC Transportation - Corporate TCR series: 2019=3.3 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 4.5

Where TMC Transportation - Corporate falls in its industry

3,252 Trucking, general freight, lon establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 69 Trucking, general freight, lon employers in Iowa.

TMC Transportation - Corporate (2,208 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate TMC Transportation - Corporate
TMC Transportation - Corporate (2,208 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

TMC Transportation - Corporate has more employees than the Trucking, general freight, long-distance median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 2.2 1.9 100 0 0
2023 2.1 1.7 99 1 0
2022 0.9 0.3 6 0 0
2021 1.4 0.8 9 0 0
2019 3.3 2.7 142 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IA · Des Moines

3,252 Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) 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 Cranbury, NJ - Cranbury Statio 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Altom Transport, Inc - ST. GABRIEL 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Easton, PA - 721 S 25th Street 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WESTERN BILLING CENTER 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Heartland Express Corporate 2,211 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mercy Hospital 2,197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Whirlpool - Amana 2,230 FTE
STATE-SIZE JBS Marshalltown 2,231 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 Nelson Tree Service, LLC 472 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Spring SD 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR M6045 Method Leb 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Es-St. Vincent'S Med 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Board of Education 2,209 FTE
NAT-SIZE Duke Regional Hospital 2,209 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pse&G Nj Electric Distribution 2,209 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whites Creek Hub (Tnwhi) 2,207 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, 2022, 2021, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.