Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) · Kansas

IKEA #374 Merriam

Merriam, KS · ~201 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

IKEA #374 Merriam runs at 208% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) workplace, earning a grade F.

IKEA #374 Merriam: 7.1 TCR = 208% of Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IKEA #374 Merriam safety composite

IKEA #374 Merriam scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

−5.8

2016→2024

IKEA #374 Merriam injury rate improved

IKEA #374 Merriam's TCR fell 5.8 from 10.4 in 2016 to 4.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 17.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.4 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=17.1 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=8.3 · 2021=8.1 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 442110 · Merriam, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 208% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #9/14
  • PHOTO 4535-1354
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 89 inj
  • SIZE ~201 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4535-1354 (0.0 TCR gap)

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IKEA #374 Merriam in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IKEA #374 Merriam averages 7.1 TCR (208% of the Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) BLS benchmark).

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

IKEA #374 Merriam TCR series: 2016=10.4 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=17.1 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=8.3 · 2021=8.1 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 3.4

Where IKEA #374 Merriam falls in its industry

2,215 Furniture stores (e.g., househ establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 14 Furniture stores (e.g., househ employers in Kansas.

IKEA #374 Merriam (201 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate IKEA #374 Merriam
IKEA #374 Merriam (201 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 5.0

IKEA #374 Merriam has more employees than the Furniture stores (e.g., household, offic median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2024 4.6 4.6 6 0 0
2023 4.6 4.6 6 0 0
2022 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2021 8.1 8.1 9 0 0
2020 8.3 8.3 12 0 0
2019 6.9 6.9 10 0 0
2018 17.1 5.9 26 0 0
2017 1.9 1.9 3 0 0
2016 10.4 6.2 15 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

442110 · KS · Merriam

2,215 Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 24 employers in Merriam, KS · 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 4535-1354 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4535-1009 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashley Furniture Homestore- Southaven 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR KWF Gainesville, FL 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Manko Window Systems, Inc. - Manhattan 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE STE Hackney Inc. - Independence, KS 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE 615-00095 201 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1691 201 FTE
CITY-NEAR IBT, Inc. 374 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cohen Esrey 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR 96920030-103 DS BUS LINES, INC.-MERRIAM 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aristocrat Motors 157 FTE
NAT-TCR Lehigh Valley Operations 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Vineyard Place 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Fireline Sprinkler, LLC 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lexington LEX 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Grand Prairie Foods 1400 Plant 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cross Pointe 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE Menasha Packaging Company - Neenah 201 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nordon Inc. 201 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.