Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, screws) merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Wurth Adams Des Moines

Des Moines, IA · ~57 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wurth Adams Des Moines runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, screws) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Wurth Adams Des Moines: 0.8 TCR = 37% of Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, screws) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wurth Adams Des Moines safety composite

Wurth Adams Des Moines scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

Wurth Adams Des Moines: 0.0 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 1.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2022

Wurth Adams Des Moines's TCR rose 1.6 from 0.0 in 2021 to 1.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Des Moines, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 37% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO BAY FASTENING SYSTEMS
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BAY FASTENING SYSTEMS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wurth Adams Des Moines in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wurth Adams Des Moines averages 0.8 TCR (37% of the Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, screws) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Wurth Adams Des Moines TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=1.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Wurth Adams Des Moines falls in its industry

449 Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, establishments

Safer than 87% 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 #1 safest of 8 Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, employers in Iowa.

Wurth Adams Des Moines (57 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 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 Wurth Adams Des Moines
Wurth Adams Des Moines (57 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Wurth Adams Des Moines has fewer employees than the Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, sc median and a lower 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
2022 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · IA · Des Moines

449 Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, screws) merchant wholesalers 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 BAY FASTENING SYSTEMS 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allegion Olathe 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Apex Tool Group - Apex Operations 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Duncanville TX Supply 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Winfield United - Vincent 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henning Companies, LLC 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Hawk Roof Company 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guthrie Center Breaker Plant 57 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 44917 - Pompano Beach Bulk 24 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 400 R Steet 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at University of New Haven-Fod 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR R&O Construction 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 49988 - Phoenix Metro Tdd 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE East Brunswick Nj Depot 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Homepointe-Hobart 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boomers Boca Raton 57 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: 2022, 2021. 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.