Concrete product manufacturing · Iowa

West Des Moines Pipe & Precast

Des Moines, IA · ~16 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Des Moines Pipe & Precast runs at 43% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Concrete product manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

West Des Moines Pipe & Precast: 1.4 TCR = 43% of Concrete product manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Des Moines Pipe & Precast safety composite

West Des Moines Pipe & Precast scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

Rising injury rate

West Des Moines Pipe & Precast: 0.0 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

West Des Moines Pipe & Precast's TCR rose 4.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327390 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 43% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/14
  • PHOTO Oldcastle OPI - Auburn
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oldcastle OPI - Auburn (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Des Moines Pipe & Precast in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Des Moines Pipe & Precast averages 1.4 TCR (43% of the Concrete product manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

West Des Moines Pipe & Precast TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where West Des Moines Pipe & Precast falls in its industry

790 Concrete product manufacturing establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 14 Concrete product manufacturing employers in Iowa.

West Des Moines Pipe & Precast (16 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate West Des Moines Pipe & Precast
West Des Moines Pipe & Precast (16 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.6

West Des Moines Pipe & Precast has fewer employees than the Concrete product manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2019 4.3 0.0 0 1 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327390 · IA · Des Moines

790 Concrete product 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Oldcastle OPI - Auburn 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oldcastle OPI - San Antonio 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Markham Inc 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR IPG - Telford 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Indian Creek 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dike 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Signet Builders Inc. - Iowa Office & Shop 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE 103582 - Rivers Edge Parking Structure 16 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 State Farm Winterhaven FL 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Millercoors Trenton Brewery 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR AMEREN MISSOURI - Rush Island Plant 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Receiving Station E 1.4 TCR

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: 2019, 2018, 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.