Discount Department Stores · Pennsylvania

1218 - McCandless

Pittsburgh, PA · ~178 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1218 - McCandless runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade C.

1218 - McCandless: 3.4 TCR = 99% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1218 - McCandless safety composite

1218 - McCandless scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

1218 - McCandless: 2.4 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2024

1218 - McCandless's TCR rose 2.8 from 2.4 in 2019 to 5.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Pittsburgh, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 99% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #51/175
  • PHOTO 2480 - Lowell
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~178 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2480 - Lowell (0.0 TCR gap)

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1218 - McCandless in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1218 - McCandless averages 3.4 TCR (99% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1218 - McCandless TCR series: 2019=2.4 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 3.4

Where 1218 - McCandless falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 175 Discount Department Stores employers in Pennsylvania.

1218 - McCandless (178 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 1218 - McCandless
1218 - McCandless (178 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1218 - McCandless has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a lower 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 5.2 2.6 4 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.4 2.4 1 1 0
2021 6.9 2.3 4 2 0
2019 2.4 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · PA · Pittsburgh

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 1,170 employers in Pittsburgh, PA · 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 2480 - Lowell 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2875 - Wilmington Prices Corner 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 1821 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit #0494 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE PurePenn d/b/a Trulieve 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Signature Building Systems 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE BrandSafway Industries LLC - Shell Maintenance - Monaca 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smithfield Foods 178 FTE
CITY-NEAR United States Steel COrporation 15,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Pittsburgh- Oakland 14,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside (PUH) 13,900 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Pittsburgh-Oakland 13,208 FTE
NAT-TCR 2480 - Lowell 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pt-Ascension St John 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Infac North America 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Better Bilt Products 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0984 - Medina 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1469 - Monroe 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1530 - Muncie 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0793 - Cuyahoga Falls 178 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.