retailing childrens items · Iowa

buybuy Baby W Des Moines

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

F
Failing Safety Record
18.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

buybuy Baby W Des Moines runs at 538% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical retailing childrens items workplace, earning a grade F.

buybuy Baby W Des Moines: 18.3 TCR = 538% of retailing childrens items BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

buybuy Baby W Des Moines safety composite

buybuy Baby W Des Moines scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

TCR Δ

−20.9

2019→2020

buybuy Baby W Des Moines injury rate improved

buybuy Baby W Des Moines's TCR fell 20.9 from 28.7 in 2019 to 7.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 28.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=28.7 · 2020=7.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 448130 · West Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.3 · 538% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK P2
  • PHOTO buybuy Baby Pleasant…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: buybuy Baby Pleasant Hill (0.3 TCR gap)

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buybuy Baby W Des Moines 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 averages 18.3 TCR (538% of the retailing childrens items BLS benchmark).

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

buybuy Baby W Des Moines TCR series: 2019=28.7 · 2020=7.8 · BLS 3.4

Where buybuy Baby W Des Moines falls in its industry

127 retailing childrens items establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
buybuy Baby W Des Moines (24 employees, TCR 18.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 29 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate buybuy Baby W Des Moines
buybuy Baby W Des Moines (24 employees, TCR 18.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 29 employees and a TCR of 3.8

buybuy Baby W Des Moines has fewer employees than the retailing childrens items 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
2020 7.8 7.8 1 0 0
2019 28.7 5.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

448130 · IA · West Des Moines

127 retailing childrens items 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 buybuy Baby Pleasant Hill 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR buybuy Baby Henrietta 19.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR buybuy Baby Farmington Hills 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR buybuy Baby Batavia 14.4 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 Tygart Center 18.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Prairie Homestead 18.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Orlando Enjoy House 18.3 TCR
NAT-TCR MVRBC - Maryland Heights 18.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE REN156 San Jose 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE REN155 Oakland 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE REN018 York 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waters Corporation Franklin Global Distribution Center 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: 2020, 2019. 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.