Discount Department Stores · Alabama

1499 - Opelika

Opelika, AL · ~198 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1499 - Opelika runs at 361% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

1499 - Opelika: 12.3 TCR = 361% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1499 - Opelika safety composite

1499 - Opelika scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

1499 - Opelika held a steady TCR band

1499 - Opelika's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.1 in 2019 to 3.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 32.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.1 · 2021=13.1 · 2022=32.6 · 2023=9.1 · 2024=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Opelika, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.3 · 361% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #62/64
  • PHOTO 2188 - Miami Central
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~198 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2188 - Miami Central (0.0 TCR gap)

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1499 - Opelika in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1499 - Opelika averages 12.3 TCR (361% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1499 - Opelika TCR series: 2019=3.1 · 2021=13.1 · 2022=32.6 · 2023=9.1 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 3.4

Where 1499 - Opelika falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 64 Discount Department Stores employers in Alabama.

1499 - Opelika (198 employees, TCR 12.3) 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 1499 - Opelika
1499 - Opelika (198 employees, TCR 12.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1499 - Opelika 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 3.4 3.4 4 0 0
2023 9.1 5.4 8 2 0
2022 32.6 31.8 4 36 0
2021 13.1 6.5 4 12 0
2019 3.1 2.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · AL · Opelika

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 87 employers in Opelika, AL · 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 2188 - Miami Central 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 1319 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 838 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 1301 12.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Huhtamaki 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE BAE Systems Forge Facility 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thacker Casket Manufacturing 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mitchell-Hollinngsworth Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6095 849 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6095 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mando America Corporation 493 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hanwha Advanced Materials America LLC. Opelika 470 FTE
NAT-TCR Allentown Vending 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR San Diego CRS 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR A. E. Finley Ymca - Ymca of the Triangle 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Terminal 30 12.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1360 - Phoenix NE 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1845 - Wilkes-Barre 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2037 - Burlington 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1013 - North Buffalo 198 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.