Telecommunications · Iowa

TMDES - Des Moines, IA

Des Moines, IA · ~44 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TMDES - Des Moines, IA runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications workplace, earning a grade D.

TMDES - Des Moines, IA: 4.5 TCR = 161% of Telecommunications BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TMDES - Des Moines, IA safety composite

TMDES - Des Moines, IA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

TMDES - Des Moines, IA: 2.1 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.53× in 2017

TMDES - Des Moines, IA's TCR rose 4.8 from 2.1 in 2016 to 6.9 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 161% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #10/19
  • PHOTO Chickasaw
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chickasaw (0.0 TCR gap)

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TMDES - Des Moines, IA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TMDES - Des Moines, IA averages 4.5 TCR (161% of the Telecommunications BLS benchmark).

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

TMDES - Des Moines, IA TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=6.9 · BLS 2.8

Where TMDES - Des Moines, IA falls in its industry

1,605 Telecommunications establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 19 Telecommunications employers in Iowa.

TMDES - Des Moines, IA (44 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate TMDES - Des Moines, IA
TMDES - Des Moines, IA (44 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

TMDES - Des Moines, IA has fewer employees than the Telecommunications median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2017 6.9 6.9 4 0 0
2016 2.1 2.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · IA · Des Moines

1,605 Telecommunications 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 Chickasaw 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NSL Line 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NA-US-CO-Denver-East 76th Avenue 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR LC033 - Greencastle 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms East 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE GAC 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2511-Beaman, IA (Monsanto Co.) 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2050-Clarion, IA (Monsanto Co.) 44 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 Smithfield - Cudahy Packaged 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakewood (Njlak) 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR UGN-Valparaiso 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyster-Yale Sulligent Plant 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Santa Anita 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Chillicothe Inc 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ashland Nursing and Rehab LLC 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Insys Manufacturing, LLC 44 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: 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.