Construction Machinery Manufacturing · Iowa

Vermeer Des Moines

Des Moines, IA · ~89 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vermeer Des Moines runs at 586% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Construction Machinery Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Vermeer Des Moines: 19.3 TCR = 586% of Construction Machinery Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vermeer Des Moines safety composite

Vermeer Des Moines scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−17.1

2023→2024

Vermeer Des Moines injury rate improved

Vermeer Des Moines's TCR fell 17.1 from 27.9 in 2023 to 10.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 27.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=27.9 · 2024=10.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333120 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 19.3 · 586% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #24/25
  • PHOTO Bobcat
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bobcat (0.1 TCR gap)

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Vermeer Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vermeer Des Moines averages 19.3 TCR (586% of the Construction Machinery Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vermeer Des Moines TCR series: 2023=27.9 · 2024=10.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Vermeer Des Moines falls in its industry

400 Construction Machinery Manufac establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 25 Construction Machinery Manufac employers in Iowa.

Vermeer Des Moines (89 employees, TCR 19.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Vermeer Des Moines
Vermeer Des Moines (89 employees, TCR 19.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Vermeer Des Moines has more employees than the Construction Machinery Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 10.8 6.8 10 1 0
2023 27.9 21.9 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333120 · IA · Des Moines

400 Construction Machinery Manufacturing 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 Bobcat 19.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TEAMCO INC. 18.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rockland Mfg Friendship Village Plant 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Little Falls Machine, Inc. 17.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms Dows 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE ICF Ovation 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Muscatine Power & Water Power Plant 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative 89 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 Lorian Health Riverside-Orange County 19.3 TCR
NAT-TCR River Street School - Windsor 19.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1136 Tul79 19.3 TCR
NAT-TCR NHC Healthcare Hendersonville 19.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kennebunk Center for Health & Rehabilitation, LLC 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Health Department 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE B&M Painting co. llc 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Comtrac 89 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. 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.