Discount Department Stores · North Carolina

2565 - Gastonia

Gastonia, NC · ~188 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

2565 - Gastonia runs at 233% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

2565 - Gastonia: 7.9 TCR = 233% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

2565 - Gastonia safety composite

2565 - Gastonia scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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)
F 7.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

2565 - Gastonia held a steady TCR band

2565 - Gastonia's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 24.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2021=24.2 · 2022=10.7 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 233% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #103/113
  • PHOTO 2143 - Los Angeles T…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~188 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2143 - Los Angeles Topanga (0.0 TCR gap)

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2565 - Gastonia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 2565 - Gastonia averages 7.9 TCR (233% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

2565 - Gastonia TCR series: 2019=0 · 2021=24.2 · 2022=10.7 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where 2565 - Gastonia falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #103 safest of 113 Discount Department Stores employers in North Carolina.

2565 - Gastonia (188 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 2565 - Gastonia
2565 - Gastonia (188 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

2565 - Gastonia 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 4.6 2.8 5 0 0
2022 10.7 9.8 3 9 0
2021 24.2 15.3 6 21 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · NC · Gastonia

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 182 employers in Gastonia, 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 2143 - Los Angeles Topanga 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hammond Dirt Cheap 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1000 - Westminster 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1206 - Buford 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Garner Complex 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE Merritt Management Corp - Merritt Construction Services - NC 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE GA Solar Services 188 FTE
STATE-SIZE Funston Company 188 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center 3,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston County Government 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
NAT-TCR 2143 - Los Angeles Topanga 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Tampa FL 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pelletier Construction Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson - MS 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2488 - Western Hills 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2158 - Big Flats 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2017 - Dumfries 188 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1847 - Wilsonville 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.