Discount Department Stores · North Carolina

2134 - Kernersville

Kernersville, NC · ~149 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

2134 - Kernersville runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

2134 - Kernersville: 5.2 TCR = 152% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

2134 - Kernersville safety composite

2134 - Kernersville scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

2134 - Kernersville: 2.7 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.24× in 2024

2134 - Kernersville's TCR rose 1.0 from 2.7 in 2019 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 152% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #72/113
  • PHOTO 1060 - Madison West
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~149 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1060 - Madison West (0.0 TCR gap)

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2134 - Kernersville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 2134 - Kernersville 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

2134 - Kernersville TCR series: 2019=2.7 · 2021=9.7 · 2022=7.1 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 3.4

Where 2134 - Kernersville 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 North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #72 safest of 113 Discount Department Stores employers in North Carolina.

2134 - Kernersville (149 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 2134 - Kernersville
2134 - Kernersville (149 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

2134 - Kernersville 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 3.8 1.3 3 0 0
2023 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2022 7.1 7.1 1 5 0
2021 9.7 9.7 5 3 0
2019 2.7 2.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · NC · Kernersville

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 93 employers in Kernersville, 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 1060 - Madison West 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit #1531 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 1434 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6072 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Samet Corporation - Greensboro 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Johnson Modern Electric Company, INC 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Industrial Air Inc. 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Domino's Supply Chain Center- North Carolina 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-GRNB 1,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - GSO1 968 FTE
CITY-NEAR 274 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Kernersville 782 FTE
NAT-TCR 1060 - Madison West 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Orem City Public Works 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mesquite, NM 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Human Services Agency 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2095 - Owasso 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1981 - Weatherford 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1962 - Waxahachie 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1399 - Lake Charles 149 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.