IKEA #488 Seattle
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RENTON, WA | Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor)
~391 avg employees | 8 years of OSHA data
IKEA #488 Seattle has an average TCR of 7.1, which is 210% of the industry average (3.4) for Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor). This is significantly worse than average.
Safety Insights for IKEA #488 Seattle
IKEA #488 Seattle operates an establishment with approximately 391 full-time equivalent workers in RENTON, WA, classified under the Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) industry (NAICS 442110). Across 8 years of mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reporting, this employer has accumulated 152 recordable injuries, 2 occupational illnesses, and 0 workplace fatalities. The average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 7.1 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year provides the anchor metric for the F letter grade (Failing Safety Record).
Benchmarked against the Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average of 3.4 for Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor), IKEA #488 Seattle's workforce experiences 210% of the typical injury burden. This ratio matters because TCR already normalizes for hours worked — a 200,000-hour exposure base equals roughly 100 full-time workers — so establishments with very different headcounts can be compared directly. A TCR above the benchmark flags a higher-than-typical risk profile for jobseekers, insurers, and enforcement agencies to examine.
Multi-year trend analysis is the single most reliable signal here: a one-year spike could reflect a single severe event, whereas sustained elevation across 8 reporting cycles points to systemic hazard exposure. Readers evaluating IKEA #488 Seattle as an employer, contractor, investment, or regulatory target should examine the yearly DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred), the fatality count of 0, and any year-over-year deterioration shown in the table below. All figures come directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries — there is no modeling, estimation, or third-party adjustment layered on top of the government data.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from IKEA #488 Seattle's own 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)
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.
24 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 565,554 hours worked = 8.49 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904 — OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context — Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| IKEA #488 Seattle (this establishment) | 7.14 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 8-year avg |
| Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) industry avg | 3.40 | BLS IIF, NAICS 442110 |
| Washington state avg (all industries) | 9.09 | 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 #488 Seattle 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: 25 reportable incidents · 25 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 16 reportable incidents · 16 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 18 reportable incidents · 18 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 22 reportable incidents · 20 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 15 reportable incidents · 15 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 17 reportable incidents · 17 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 21 reportable incidents · 21 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 20 reportable incidents · 20 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 | 8.8 | 8.5 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 5.7 | 5.0 | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 8.0 | 7.6 | 20 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020 | 6.0 | 5.2 | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 6.8 | 5.2 | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 7.3 | 6.9 | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 6.6 | 1.0 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
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