Discount Department Stores · Texas

1542 - Austin East

Austin, TX · ~171 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1542 - Austin East runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

1542 - Austin East: 4.3 TCR = 127% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1542 - Austin East safety composite

1542 - Austin East scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.81 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%).

Rising injury rate

1542 - Austin East: 0.9 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.19× in 2024

1542 - Austin East's TCR rose 0.7 from 0.9 in 2019 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Austin, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 127% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #306/489
  • PHOTO 0026 - Ballwin
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~171 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0026 - Ballwin (0.0 TCR gap)

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1542 - Austin East in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1542 - Austin East averages 4.3 TCR (127% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1542 - Austin East TCR series: 2019=0.9 · 2021=8.3 · 2022=6.8 · 2023=4 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.4

Where 1542 - Austin East falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #306 safest of 489 Discount Department Stores employers in Texas.

1542 - Austin East (171 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 1542 - Austin East
1542 - Austin East (171 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1542 - Austin East 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 1.6 0.8 2 0 0
2023 4.0 4.0 4 1 0
2022 6.8 6.8 3 6 0
2021 8.3 5.0 4 6 0
2019 0.9 0.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · TX · Austin

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 1,645 employers in Austin, TX · 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 0026 - Ballwin 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0677 - Anaheim Hills 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0863 - Menomonee Falls 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1756 - Olathe 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE AUSTIN TX SC 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Balfour Beatty NEWPPP 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weisinger Incorporated 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Exxon Beaumont 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ensign Services 11,325 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-TX-Austin-Giga Texas 8,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-Loc: CORP LOC - US Austin 6,911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-CORP LOC - USA UNITED STATES - AST 5,272 FTE
NAT-TCR 1756 - Olathe 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 0863 - Menomonee Falls 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 2470 - San Pedro 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 0677 - Anaheim Hills 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1821 - Manhattan 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1316 - Tucson SW 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1199 - Columbia NW 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2133 - LaPlata 171 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.