Discount Department Stores · New York

1521 - Niskayuna

Schenectady, NY · ~167 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1521 - Niskayuna runs at 307% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

1521 - Niskayuna: 10.4 TCR = 307% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1521 - Niskayuna safety composite

1521 - Niskayuna scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−2.6

2019→2024

1521 - Niskayuna injury rate improved

1521 - Niskayuna's TCR fell 2.6 from 5.0 in 2019 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 20.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.0 · 2021=20.5 · 2022=17.0 · 2023=7.3 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Schenectady, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 307% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #140/156
  • PHOTO 1492 - New Hartford
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~167 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1492 - New Hartford (0.0 TCR gap)

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1521 - Niskayuna in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1521 - Niskayuna averages 10.4 TCR (307% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1521 - Niskayuna TCR series: 2019=5 · 2021=20.5 · 2022=17 · 2023=7.3 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.4

Where 1521 - Niskayuna falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #140 safest of 156 Discount Department Stores employers in New York.

1521 - Niskayuna (167 employees, TCR 10.4) 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 1521 - Niskayuna
1521 - Niskayuna (167 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1521 - Niskayuna 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 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2023 7.3 6.1 3 3 0
2022 17.0 15.9 6 9 0
2021 20.5 13.3 10 10 0
2019 5.0 2.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · NY · Schenectady

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 154 employers in Schenectady, NY · 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 1492 - New Hartford 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 2153 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0019 - Tulsa 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0303 - Oceanside 10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pyramid Network Services, LLC 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE GYPSUM SYSTEMS, LLC. 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dupli Envelope 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Latham Packaged Pools - Latham, NY 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gas Power Systems : Schenectady, NY, USA 4,057 FTE
CITY-NEAR GSC : Schenectady, NY, USA 3,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ellis Hospital 3,061 FTE
CITY-NEAR Union College 1,827 FTE
NAT-TCR Emory University Hospital - EHC 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Havasu Dunes 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR MIT026 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pac Green Landscape 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1870 - Simpsonville 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2083 - Yuma 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2135 - Oakdale 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0877 - Hollywood 167 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.