Discount Department Stores · South Carolina

1199 - Columbia NW

Columbia, SC · ~171 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1199 - Columbia NW runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

1199 - Columbia NW: 5.0 TCR = 147% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1199 - Columbia NW safety composite

1199 - Columbia NW scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

−3.4

2019→2024

1199 - Columbia NW injury rate improved

1199 - Columbia NW's TCR fell 3.4 from 6.8 in 2019 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.8 · 2021=7.7 · 2022=7.3 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Columbia, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 147% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #35/55
  • PHOTO 1249 - South Windsor
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~171 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1249 - South Windsor (0.0 TCR gap)

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1199 - Columbia NW in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1199 - Columbia NW averages 5.0 TCR (147% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1199 - Columbia NW TCR series: 2019=6.8 · 2021=7.7 · 2022=7.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.4

Where 1199 - Columbia NW falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 55 Discount Department Stores employers in South Carolina.

1199 - Columbia NW (171 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 1199 - Columbia NW
1199 - Columbia NW (171 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1199 - Columbia NW 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 3.3 2.2 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 7.3 7.3 0 7 0
2021 7.7 3.9 5 3 0
2019 6.8 5.6 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · SC · Columbia

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 542 employers in Columbia, SC · 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 1249 - South Windsor 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 5276 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit #0699 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 311 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE AOCUSA - South Carolina 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Halocarbon Products Corporation 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zeus Gaston 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0385 LOWE S OF IRMO SC 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmetto Health Richland 5,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prisma Health Richland 4,729 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Carolina Department of Transportation 4,400 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC Department of Transportation 3,864 FTE
NAT-TCR 1249 - South Windsor 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR BROWARD 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Great Bend 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR GRR 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1316 - Tucson SW 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1542 - Austin East 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0769 - Las Cruces 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1821 - Manhattan 171 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.