Discount Department Stores · Georgia

0981 - Cobb

Kennesaw, GA · ~185 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0981 - Cobb runs at 268% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

0981 - Cobb: 9.1 TCR = 268% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0981 - Cobb safety composite

0981 - Cobb scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).

F

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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%).

Rising injury rate

0981 - Cobb: 1.0 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 17.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2024

0981 - Cobb's TCR rose 6.8 from 1.0 in 2019 to 7.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 17.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Kennesaw, GA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 268% of ind

  • DART 7.9 DART
  • RANK #117/126
  • PHOTO 2156 - Waterbury
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~185 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2156 - Waterbury (0.0 TCR gap)

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0981 - Cobb in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0981 - Cobb averages 9.1 TCR (268% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

0981 - Cobb TCR series: 2019=1 · 2021=17.5 · 2022=15.3 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=7.9 · BLS 3.4

Where 0981 - Cobb falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #117 safest of 126 Discount Department Stores employers in Georgia.

0981 - Cobb (185 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 0981 - Cobb
0981 - Cobb (185 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

0981 - Cobb has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 7.9 7.9 4 4 0
2023 3.8 2.8 3 1 0
2022 15.3 15.3 2 15 0
2021 17.5 9.2 2 17 0
2019 1.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · GA · Kennesaw

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 222 employers in Kennesaw, GA · 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 2156 - Waterbury 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1078 - Greensboro Wendover 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 600 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2877 - Glendale North Shore 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Snyder's Lance 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Propex Furnishing Solutions, Inc. 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Modern Dispersions South Inc 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE SK microworks America 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atlanta (Smyrna) 1,691 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-MARI 1,388 FTE
CITY-NEAR BPS Kennesaw 1,071 FTE
CITY-NEAR NPSG Global 753 FTE
NAT-TCR 2156 - Waterbury 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Champagne Metals - Indiana 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Cattle Feeders, LLC 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 549 Mill Road 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1005 - Fairfax 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1136 - Springfield 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0780 - Jeffersontown 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0279 - Dearborn 185 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, 2019. 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.