Discount Department Stores · Missouri

1509 - South County

Saint Louis, MO · ~219 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1509 - South County runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

1509 - South County: 5.2 TCR = 152% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1509 - South County safety composite

1509 - South County scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−4.3

2019→2024

1509 - South County injury rate improved

1509 - South County's TCR fell 4.3 from 6.0 in 2019 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.0 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=10.1 · 2023=5.0 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Saint Louis, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 152% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #65/96
  • PHOTO 0779 - Elizabethtown
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~219 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0779 - Elizabethtown (0.0 TCR gap)

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1509 - South County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1509 - South County averages 5.2 TCR (152% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1509 - South County TCR series: 2019=6 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=10.1 · 2023=5 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.4

Where 1509 - South County falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #65 safest of 96 Discount Department Stores employers in Missouri.

1509 - South County (219 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 1509 - South County
1509 - South County (219 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1509 - South County 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 1.7 0.8 2 0 0
2023 5.0 3.3 6 0 0
2022 10.1 9.3 4 9 0
2021 3.1 2.3 2 2 0
2019 6.0 3.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · MO · Saint Louis

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 448 employers in Saint Louis, MO · 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 0779 - Elizabethtown 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1246 - Sturgeon Bay 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2425 - Ridgmar 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit #2320 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Associated Electric Cooperative Inc - Thomas Hill 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE Velociti Operational Headquarters 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0026 - Ballwin 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE 92 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR MO002 12,691 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barnes-Jewish Hospital 9,005 FTE
CITY-NEAR MERCY HOSPITAL ST LOUIS 5,653 FTE
CITY-NEAR Checkerboard Square 3,464 FTE
NAT-TCR 1246 - Sturgeon Bay 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 2425 - Ridgmar 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 0779 - Elizabethtown 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Barnes Healthcare Services - Valdosta 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1514 - North Richland Hills 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1534 - West Chester Township 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1476 - Fayetteville 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1424 - Norwalk East 219 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.