Discount Department Stores · North Carolina

2784 - Cary West

Cary, NC · ~213 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

2784 - Cary West runs at 212% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

2784 - Cary West: 7.2 TCR = 212% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

2784 - Cary West safety composite

2784 - Cary West scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

2784 - Cary West: 1.1 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 18.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.16× in 2024

2784 - Cary West's TCR rose 1.3 from 1.1 in 2019 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 18.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 212% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #94/113
  • PHOTO Ross store 1014
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~213 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ross store 1014 (0.0 TCR gap)

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2784 - Cary West in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 2784 - Cary West averages 7.2 TCR (212% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

2784 - Cary West TCR series: 2019=1.1 · 2021=12.3 · 2022=18 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.4

Where 2784 - Cary West falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #94 safest of 113 Discount Department Stores employers in North Carolina.

2784 - Cary West (213 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 2784 - Cary West
2784 - Cary West (213 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

2784 - Cary West 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 2.4 1.2 2 0 0
2023 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2022 18.0 16.0 5 13 0
2021 12.3 5.7 4 9 0
2019 1.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · NC · Cary

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 187 employers in Cary, 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 Ross store 1014 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1310 - Aiken 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2145 - Denton 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2327 - Norton Shores 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Recore Electrical Contractors, Inc. 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frontier Spinning Mills Plant 1 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evergreen Packaging - Waynesville 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE Procter and Gamble Manufacturing - Greensboro PHC 213 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cary 3,136 FTE
CITY-NEAR WakeMed Cary Hospital 1,750 FTE
CITY-NEAR SERO-SOUTHEAST RESERVATIONS OFFICE 1,324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cary - 305 Gregson Drive 883 FTE
NAT-TCR Brevard Dc 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Amick Farms, LLC MD Processing Plant 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR double kwik Isom 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Freeland Dairy 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2641 - Salt Lake City 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2601 - Petaluma 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1496 - Westborough 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1965 - Leominster 213 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.