Furniture Merchant Wholesalers · Iowa

4769-6229-West Elm

Des Moines, IA · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

4769-6229-West Elm runs at 531% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Furniture Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

4769-6229-West Elm: 11.7 TCR = 531% of Furniture Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

4769-6229-West Elm safety composite

4769-6229-West Elm scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

4769-6229-West Elm: 0.0 → 22.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 22.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2019

4769-6229-West Elm's TCR rose 22.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 22.5 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423210 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.7 · 531% of ind

  • DART 11.2 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO 4769-107-POTTERY BARN
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4769-107-POTTERY BARN (0.1 TCR gap)

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4769-6229-West Elm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 4769-6229-West Elm averages 11.7 TCR (531% of the Furniture Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

4769-6229-West Elm TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=12.6 · 2019=22.5 · BLS 2.2

Where 4769-6229-West Elm falls in its industry

638 Furniture Merchant Wholesalers establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Furniture Merchant Wholesalers employers in Iowa.

4769-6229-West Elm (25 employees, TCR 11.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 4769-6229-West Elm
4769-6229-West Elm (25 employees, TCR 11.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 6.2

4769-6229-West Elm has fewer employees than the Furniture Merchant Wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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 22.5 11.2 2 0 0
2018 12.6 12.6 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423210 · IA · Des Moines

638 Furniture 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 4769-107-POTTERY BARN 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4769-882-WEST ELM 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4769-714-WILLIAMS SONOMA 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4769-513-POTTERY BARN 11.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE WCT-Crystal Lake 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oskaloosa Service Center 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Power 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Consumers Energy 25 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 Thor Motor Coach/Plant 450 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR IN 2428 Chester Blvd. 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : STL4 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR OPP 11.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4769-6082-Pottery Barn Kids 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4769-571-Pottery Barn 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4769-911-Pottery Barn 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4769-938-West Elm 25 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.