Used merchandise stores · Iowa

Merle Hay Road Des Moines Ia Thrift Store

Des Moines, IA · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merle Hay Road Des Moines Ia Thrift Store runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Used merchandise stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Merle Hay Road Des Moines Ia Thrift Store: 4.4 TCR = 130% of Used merchandise stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merle Hay Road Des Moines Ia Thrift Store safety composite

Merle Hay Road Des Moines Ia Thrift Store scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

Merle Hay Road Des Moines Ia Thrift Store held a steady TCR band

Merle Hay Road Des Moines Ia Thrift Store's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 16.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=16.5 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 453310 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 130% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #30/54
  • PHOTO Zebulon
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Zebulon (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merle Hay Road Des Moines Ia Thrift Store in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merle Hay Road Des Moines Ia Thrift Store averages 4.4 TCR (130% of the Used merchandise stores BLS benchmark).

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

Merle Hay Road Des Moines Ia Thrift Store TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=16.5 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Merle Hay Road Des Moines Ia Thrift Store falls in its industry

1,556 Used merchandise stores establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 54 Used merchandise stores employers in Iowa.

Merle Hay Road Des Moines Ia Thrift Store (26 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Merle Hay Road Des Moines Ia Thrift Store
Merle Hay Road Des Moines Ia Thrift Store (26 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Merle Hay Road Des Moines Ia Thrift Store has fewer employees than the Used merchandise stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2017 16.5 11.0 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

453310 · IA · Des Moines

1,556 Used merchandise stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 525 employers in 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 Zebulon 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City Thrift - Jacksonville 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peru Retail Store 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boynton 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eastwood Sow Unit 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4806-Urbandale, IA 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE DBQ Downtown Office 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Iowa Electric Cooperative 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 6,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines 4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Des Moines 3,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Methodist Hospital 3,495 FTE
NAT-TCR Ross store 1252 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 201 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 79 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tmx2085 - Benton Il 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE VRS Hickory, NC 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Galesburg IL Thrift Store 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Montgomery IL Store 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brian Tripple 26 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.