Retail Stores · North Carolina

0369 - Gastonia, Nc

Gastonia, NC · ~19 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0369 - Gastonia, Nc runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

0369 - Gastonia, Nc: 5.5 TCR = 161% of Retail Stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0369 - Gastonia, Nc safety composite

0369 - Gastonia, Nc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

−8.2

2016→2018

0369 - Gastonia, Nc injury rate improved

0369 - Gastonia, Nc's TCR fell 8.2 from 8.2 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.2 · 2017=8.2 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Gastonia, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 161% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/40
  • PHOTO 0084 - KNOXVILLE, TN
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0084 - KNOXVILLE, TN (0.0 TCR gap)

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0369 - Gastonia, Nc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0369 - Gastonia, Nc averages 5.5 TCR (161% of the Retail Stores BLS benchmark).

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

0369 - Gastonia, Nc TCR series: 2016=8.2 · 2017=8.2 · 2018=0 · BLS 3.4

Where 0369 - Gastonia, Nc falls in its industry

1,493 Retail Stores establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 40 Retail Stores employers in North Carolina.

0369 - Gastonia, Nc (19 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate 0369 - Gastonia, Nc
0369 - Gastonia, Nc (19 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

0369 - Gastonia, Nc has fewer employees than the Retail Stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 8.2 0.0 1 0 0
2016 8.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · NC · Gastonia

1,493 Retail Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 182 employers in Gastonia, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 0084 - KNOXVILLE, TN 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buckley Square Hardware LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0663 - SURPRISE, AZ 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frattallones Little Canada 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Turf Today Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE A And A Farms, Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod USA - Leggett Sod Farm 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Custom Shutters, INC 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center 3,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston County Government 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
NAT-TCR 0084 - Knoxville, Tn 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Southeast Louisiana Home Health 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR San Antonio Hub (Txant) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rocklin Center (Caroc) 5.5 TCR

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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.