Discount Department Stores · Ohio

2488 - Western Hills

Cincinnati, OH · ~188 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

2488 - Western Hills runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade C.

2488 - Western Hills: 3.4 TCR = 100% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

2488 - Western Hills safety composite

2488 - Western Hills scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.11 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.9

2019→2024

2488 - Western Hills injury rate improved

2488 - Western Hills's TCR fell 0.9 from 2.0 in 2019 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.0 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=3.0 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Cincinnati, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 100% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #44/111
  • PHOTO 0139 - New Albany
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~188 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0139 - New Albany (0.0 TCR gap)

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2488 - Western Hills in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 2488 - Western Hills averages 3.4 TCR (100% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

2488 - Western Hills TCR series: 2019=2 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=3 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.4

Where 2488 - Western Hills falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 111 Discount Department Stores employers in Ohio.

2488 - Western Hills (188 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 2488 - Western Hills
2488 - Western Hills (188 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

2488 - Western Hills 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 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2023 3.3 1.1 3 0 0
2022 3.0 3.0 3 0 0
2021 7.5 7.5 1 7 0
2019 2.0 2.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · OH · Cincinnati

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,513 employers in Cincinnati, OH · 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 0139 - New Albany 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1038 - North Miami 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1172 - Douglasville 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1951 - Decatur 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE WAI - Construction Group, LLC 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Ruhlin Company 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE BCU Electric 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE LIMA OH 188 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center 17,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Operations 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Evendale, OH 7,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain Evendale OH 6,400 FTE
NAT-TCR 1951 - Decatur 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Radyne Corporation 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 1172 - Douglasville 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 1038 - North Miami 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2565 - Gastonia 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2158 - Big Flats 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2017 - Dumfries 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2011 - Asheville South 188 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.