Department Store · North Carolina

249 Matthews

Matthews, NC · ~72 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

249 Matthews runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Department Store workplace, earning a grade D.

249 Matthews: 4.4 TCR = 129% of Department Store BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

249 Matthews safety composite

249 Matthews scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

249 Matthews held a steady TCR band

249 Matthews's TCR held near 0.0 from 4.4 in 2023 to 4.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.4 · 2024=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · Matthews, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 129% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #52/68
  • PHOTO 198 Bangor
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 198 Bangor (0.0 TCR gap)

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249 Matthews in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 249 Matthews averages 4.4 TCR (129% of the Department Store BLS benchmark).

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

249 Matthews TCR series: 2023=4.4 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.4

Where 249 Matthews falls in its industry

2,917 Department Store establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 68 Department Store employers in North Carolina.

249 Matthews (72 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 249 Matthews
249 Matthews (72 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

249 Matthews has fewer employees than the Department Store median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 4.4 2.2 2 0 0
2023 4.4 2.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · NC · Matthews

2,917 Department Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 94 employers in Matthews, 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 198 Bangor 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1050 Bridgewater 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 416 - McKinney 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 722 - Mantua 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Terrell and Johmmy Williams 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Toney Lumber Company, Inc. 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hickory Operations Center 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE French Broad Electric Membership Corporation - Headquarters 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Matthews Medical Center 1,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6921-06000 688 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC201 DC201 MATTHEWS NC 518 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4186-DC201 353 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 496 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Northfield 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Andersons Inc. - Hemlock 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Johnson Memorial Health 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Belding Fruit Storage, Inc. 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whitestone 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Douglaston 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main 72 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. 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.