Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) · New Jersey
IKEA #409 Paramus
Paramus, NJ · ~320 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 11.1
- Avg TCR
- 3.4
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
IKEA #409 Paramus runs at 325% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) workplace, earning a grade F.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 11.1
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.4
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 179
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares IKEA #409 Paramus's OSHA Total Case Rate of 11.1 to the Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) BLS benchmark of 3.4 (325% of benchmark) across 9 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
IKEA #409 Paramus's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.4 industry benchmark.
Where IKEA #409 Paramus falls in its industry
2,820 Furniture stores (e.g., househ establishmentsSafer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.
Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #108 safest of 121 Furniture stores (e.g., househ employers in New Jersey.
Trend analysis for IKEA #409 Paramus
Between 2016 and 2024, IKEA #409 Paramus's Total Case Rate worsened from 10.3 to 15.1 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 47% increase across 8 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2017, at a TCR of 4.7, while 2019 saw the highest rate, at 15.6, a spread of 10.9 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 9 reporting years, IKEA #409 Paramus recorded 179 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 9-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 179 injuries shown on this page for IKEA #409 Paramus are sourced from its own 9 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 442110 - Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor).
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
26 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 371,546 hours worked = 14.00 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| IKEA #409 Paramus (this establishment) | 11.05 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 9-year avg |
| Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) industry avg | 3.40 | BLS IIF, NAICS 442110 |
| New Jersey state avg (all industries) | 4.90 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by IKEA #409 Paramus to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 28 reportable incidents · 28 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 25 reportable incidents · 25 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 23 reportable incidents · 23 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 20 reportable incidents · 20 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 14 reportable incidents · 14 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 27 reportable incidents · 27 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 14 reportable incidents · 14 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 10 reportable incidents · 10 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 18 reportable incidents · 18 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 15.1 | 14.0 | 28 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 13.4 | 12.8 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 13.4 | 12.8 | 23 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 10.2 | 8.1 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 8.9 | 6.3 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 15.6 | 12.8 | 27 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 8.0 | 5.1 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 4.7 | 4.2 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 10.3 | 5.7 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on IKEA #409 Paramus's reported OSHA injury record versus its Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 325% of the Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) benchmark, IKEA #409 Paramus reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.