Department Stores · Iowa

Valley West

West Des Moines, IA · ~142 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valley West runs at 109% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Department Stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Valley West: 3.7 TCR = 109% of Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley West safety composite

Valley West scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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)
D 3.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

Valley West: 2.4 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2024

Valley West's TCR rose 1.0 from 2.4 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · West Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 109% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #28/47
  • PHOTO 71021
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~142 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 71021 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valley West in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valley West averages 3.7 TCR (109% of the Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Valley West TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=4.7 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=8.1 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Valley West falls in its industry

2,917 Department Stores establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

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 47 Department Stores employers in Iowa.

Valley West (142 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Valley West
Valley West (142 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Valley West has more employees than the Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 3.3 2.2 3 0 0
2023 4.6 2.3 4 0 0
2022 8.1 5.8 7 0 0
2021 3.5 3.5 3 0 0
2020 4.7 2.3 4 0 0
2019 2.3 1.5 3 0 0
2018 2.3 1.5 3 0 0
2017 2.3 2.3 3 0 0
2016 2.4 1.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · IA · West Des Moines

2,917 Department Stores 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 71021 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 71734 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 72032 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1222 Boynton Beach 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Seither & Cherry Company 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwest Steel Erection Inc. 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition North America, Inc. 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Webster City Custom Meats, Inc. 142 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 Osceola Telling 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR PRD, Inc 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Elbridge Campus 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR New Bern 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nci - Dallas Tx 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE ITW FEG Troy Plant 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE 019-LVL 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE 013-CIN 142 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, 2020, 2019, 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.