Academies, elementary or secondary · Iowa

WDMCS

West Des Moines, IA · ~1,363 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WDMCS runs at 446% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Academies, elementary or secondary workplace, earning a grade F.

WDMCS: 6.3 TCR = 446% of Academies, elementary or secondary BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WDMCS safety composite

WDMCS scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

WDMCS: 5.5 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.46× in 2017

WDMCS's TCR rose 1.5 from 5.5 in 2016 to 7.0 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · West Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 6.3 · 446% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #21/24
  • PHOTO New Prague Early Chi…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 129 inj
  • SIZE ~1,363 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Prague Early Childhood Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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WDMCS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WDMCS averages 6.3 TCR (446% of the Academies, elementary or secondary BLS benchmark).

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

WDMCS TCR series: 2016=5.5 · 2017=7 · BLS 1.4

Where WDMCS falls in its industry

3,374 Academies, elementary or secon establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 24 Academies, elementary or secon employers in Iowa.

WDMCS (1,363 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate WDMCS
WDMCS (1,363 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

WDMCS has more employees than the Academies, elementary or secondary median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 7.0 2.9 69 1 0
2016 5.5 1.2 60 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · IA · West Des Moines

3,374 Academies, elementary or secondary 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 New Prague Early Childhood Center 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rantoul City Schools District #137 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jen School 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Martin Kellogg Middle School 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - MLI1 1,353 FTE
STATE-SIZE John Deere Davenport Works 1,394 FTE
STATE-SIZE John Deere Waterloo Works Tractor and Cab Assembly Operations 1,331 FTE
STATE-SIZE Covenant Medical Center 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hy-Vee, Inc. 73,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wright Tree Service, Inc 4,019 FTE
CITY-NEAR FBL Financial Group Inc., Corporate Headquarters 1,123 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center - West Lake 530 FTE
NAT-TCR Wisenbaker Builder Services - HB 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Legends - Intrepid 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 10 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ranchwood Nursing Center 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE BCBSKS-Topeka Main 1,363 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frye Regional Medical Center 1,363 FTE
NAT-SIZE Emory Johns Creek Hospital -6325 EHC 1,363 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mondelez Global South East - Sales 1,363 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.