Veterinarians' medicines merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Urbandale Distribution Center

Urbandale, IA · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Urbandale Distribution Center runs at 568% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Veterinarians' medicines merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Urbandale Distribution Center: 12.5 TCR = 568% of Veterinarians' medicines merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Urbandale Distribution Center safety composite

Urbandale Distribution Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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).

F

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Urbandale Distribution Center: 11.7 → 13.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 13.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2017

Urbandale Distribution Center's TCR rose 1.7 from 11.7 in 2016 to 13.3 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424210 · Urbandale, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.5 · 568% of ind

  • DART 13.3 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Gilroy CA1
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gilroy CA1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Urbandale Distribution Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Urbandale Distribution Center averages 12.5 TCR (568% of the Veterinarians' medicines merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Urbandale Distribution Center TCR series: 2016=11.7 · 2017=13.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Urbandale Distribution Center falls in its industry

514 Veterinarians' medicines merch establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Veterinarians' medicines merch employers in Iowa.

Urbandale Distribution Center (35 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Urbandale Distribution Center
Urbandale Distribution Center (35 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Urbandale Distribution Center has fewer employees than the Veterinarians' medicines merchant wholes median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 13.3 13.3 5 0 0
2016 11.7 8.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424210 · IA · Urbandale

514 Veterinarians' medicines merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 104 employers in Urbandale, 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 Gilroy CA1 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kansas City MO1 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3495-10D8128 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3495-10D8176 12.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE IA17-SEL-OSCEOLA HATCHERY' 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience - Algona Research - ALG2 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE JFSNA at ADM Cedar Rapids 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE On Track Construction, LLC 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISG Urbandale 786 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Manufacturing Corporation 612 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mosaic Urbandale/Nevada 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR URBANDALE IA 352 FTE
NAT-TCR Penske : 5235-00 Starbucks-DCC/Grand Prairie, TX 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Troy-AL 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Downtown Summerlin 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Parks Healthcare and Rehab Center 12.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 3620 Sws of Ga-Brunswick 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairfield Inn & Suites 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Harborview 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE House of Color, Inc. 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: 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.