Discount Department Stores · New York

2253 - Watertown

Watertown, NY · ~177 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

2253 - Watertown runs at 69% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade B.

2253 - Watertown: 2.4 TCR = 69% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

2253 - Watertown safety composite

2253 - Watertown scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

2253 - Watertown: 1.2 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.47× in 2024

2253 - Watertown's TCR rose 1.0 from 1.2 in 2019 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Watertown, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 69% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #28/156
  • PHOTO WM 2555
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~177 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WM 2555 (0.0 TCR gap)

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2253 - Watertown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 2253 - Watertown averages 2.4 TCR (69% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

2253 - Watertown TCR series: 2019=1.2 · 2021=3 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 3.4

Where 2253 - Watertown falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 80% 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 #28 safest of 156 Discount Department Stores employers in New York.

2253 - Watertown (177 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 2253 - Watertown
2253 - Watertown (177 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

2253 - Watertown 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 2.2 1.1 2 0 0
2023 2.2 2.2 2 0 0
2022 3.1 2.1 3 0 0
2021 3.0 3.0 2 1 0
2019 1.2 1.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · NY · Watertown

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 115 employers in Watertown, 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 WM 2555 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit #1943 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 1485 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2427 - West Palm Beach 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Welliver 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE TC Electric 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mackenzie-Childs - Aurora 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3813_7254 177 FTE
CITY-NEAR Samaritan Medical Center 1,735 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Arc Jefferson-St Lawrence NY 1,264 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAR-FRESHNER Corporation 430 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1871 381 FTE
NAT-TCR Hyatt Regency Pittsburgh PA Airport 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Partridge Well Drilling Company, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Alvada Trucking Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pratt (Beloit Corrugating) LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2225 - Edgewater 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2174 - Conyers 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2347 - Lathrop 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2450 - Reynoldsburg 177 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.