Discount Department Stores · Montana

1282 - Helena

Helena, MT · ~125 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1282 - Helena runs at 209% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

1282 - Helena: 7.1 TCR = 209% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1282 - Helena safety composite

1282 - Helena scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

1282 - Helena: 1.6 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 14.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2024

1282 - Helena's TCR rose 5.3 from 1.6 in 2019 to 6.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 14.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Helena, MT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 209% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #23/29
  • PHOTO 0774 - Joplin
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~125 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0774 - Joplin (0.0 TCR gap)

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1282 - Helena in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1282 - Helena averages 7.1 TCR (209% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1282 - Helena TCR series: 2019=1.6 · 2021=6.7 · 2022=14.7 · 2023=5.7 · 2024=6.8 · BLS 3.4

Where 1282 - Helena falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 29 Discount Department Stores employers in Montana.

1282 - Helena (125 employees, TCR 7.1) 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 1282 - Helena
1282 - Helena (125 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1282 - Helena 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 6.8 5.5 5 0 0
2023 5.7 5.7 4 0 0
2022 14.7 13.3 5 6 0
2021 6.7 5.3 4 1 0
2019 1.6 1.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · MT · Helena

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 98 employers in Helena, MT · 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 0774 - Joplin 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1384 - Bakersfield NW 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CBO Warwick 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2300 - Richfield 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Medical Center 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-2277 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rosauers #40 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4054-ABS 0030 0009 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dick Anderson Construction 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1872 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1872 349 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rocky Mountain Contractors, Main Office 265 FTE
NAT-TCR 1384 - Bakersfield NW 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 0774 - Joplin 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR PRBH- Lourie Center 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR MEDIC Regional Blood Center 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1053 - Merritt Island 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1016 - Colonial Heights 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1931 - Forest Hill 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2084 - Decatur 125 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.