Employer · Iowa

buybuy Baby W Des Moines 3073

West Des Moines, IA · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

buybuy Baby W Des Moines 3073 runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

buybuy Baby W Des Moines 3073: 3.5 TCR = 104% of industry BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

buybuy Baby W Des Moines 3073 safety composite

buybuy Baby W Des Moines 3073 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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

buybuy Baby W Des Moines 3073: 0.0 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

buybuy Baby W Des Moines 3073's TCR rose 7.1 from 0.0 in 2017 to 7.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 442299 · West Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 104% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/12
  • PHOTO Cost Plus World Mark…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cost Plus World Market TEMECULA (0.0 TCR gap)

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buybuy Baby W Des Moines 3073 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows buybuy Baby W Des Moines 3073 averages 3.5 TCR (104% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

buybuy Baby W Des Moines 3073 TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=7.1 · BLS 3.4

Where buybuy Baby W Des Moines 3073 falls in its industry

2,162 industry establishments

Safer than 77% 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 #2 safest of 12 industry employers in Iowa.

buybuy Baby W Des Moines 3073 (24 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate buybuy Baby W Des Moines 3073
buybuy Baby W Des Moines 3073 (24 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 6.2

buybuy Baby W Des Moines 3073 has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower 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
2018 7.1 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

442299 · IA · West Des Moines

2,162 industry 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 Cost Plus World Market TEMECULA 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HG193 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 034 SJO 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Plano 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Afton Warehouse 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwood Sow Unit 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belmond 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clarion, IA 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hy-Vee, Inc. 73,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wright Tree Service, Inc 4,019 FTE
CITY-NEAR WDMCS 1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR FBL Financial Group Inc., Corporate Headquarters 1,123 FTE
NAT-TCR Cdsd Phoenix (Chandler) 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR KCP&L - 930 North Olive 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ripley's Believe It Or Not - Grand Prairie, TX 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Elite Comfort Solutions - Verona 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4795-PD-FLG-FLAGSTAFF-PD 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-Pd-Ewn-New Bern-Pd 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-PD-AVP-SCRANTON-PD 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roses 26 24 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: 2018, 2017. 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.