Discount Department Stores · North Carolina

1932 - Apex

Apex, NC · ~305 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1932 - Apex runs at 214% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

1932 - Apex: 7.3 TCR = 214% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1932 - Apex safety composite

1932 - Apex scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

1932 - Apex held a steady TCR band

1932 - Apex's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.4 in 2019 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 25.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=1.4 · 2021=6.5 · 2022=25.2 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Apex, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 214% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #96/113
  • PHOTO 1471 - Aurora
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~305 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1471 - Aurora (0.0 TCR gap)

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1932 - Apex in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1932 - Apex averages 7.3 TCR (214% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1932 - Apex TCR series: 2019=1.4 · 2021=6.5 · 2022=25.2 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.4

Where 1932 - Apex falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #96 safest of 113 Discount Department Stores employers in North Carolina.

1932 - Apex (305 employees, TCR 7.3) 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 1932 - Apex
1932 - Apex (305 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1932 - Apex 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 1.1 0.5 1 1 0
2023 2.2 1.6 3 1 0
2022 25.2 24.7 5 40 0
2021 6.5 4.2 5 6 0
2019 1.4 1.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · NC · Apex

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 92 employers in Apex, NC · 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 1471 - Aurora 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2088 - San Jose College Park 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1495 - Kingston 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2031 - Paeo 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Republic Refrigeration, Inc. 305 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newcomb and Company 305 FTE
STATE-SIZE Windsor Windows and Doors, Inc 305 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2256 305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Apex Tool Group - Apex Operation 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR Apex Tool Group - Apex Operations 445 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crowder Construction Company - Civil & Environmental Division 361 FTE
CITY-NEAR Donley's Concrete Group LLC 321 FTE
NAT-TCR 2088 - San Jose College Park 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1471 - Aurora 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1495 - Kingston 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sagebrook LLC 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1770 - Cityview 305 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2572 - Mesquite 305 FTE
NAT-SIZE Univ of Kentucky Hospital 305 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saint-Gobain 305 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.