Discount Department Stores · Alabama

2796 - Homewood

Homewood, AL · ~281 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

2796 - Homewood runs at 232% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

2796 - Homewood: 7.9 TCR = 232% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

2796 - Homewood safety composite

2796 - Homewood scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

2796 - Homewood: 1.4 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 21.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.65× in 2024

2796 - Homewood's TCR rose 4.4 from 1.4 in 2019 to 5.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 21.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Homewood, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 232% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #53/64
  • PHOTO 1938 - Glen Burnie N…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~281 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1938 - Glen Burnie North (0.0 TCR gap)

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2796 - Homewood in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 2796 - Homewood averages 7.9 TCR (232% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

2796 - Homewood TCR series: 2019=1.4 · 2021=9.8 · 2022=21.9 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 3.4

Where 2796 - Homewood 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 Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #53 safest of 64 Discount Department Stores employers in Alabama.

2796 - Homewood (281 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 2796 - Homewood
2796 - Homewood (281 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

2796 - Homewood 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 5.8 5.2 9 0 0
2023 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2022 21.9 21.9 1 36 0
2021 9.8 3.7 0 16 0
2019 1.4 1.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · AL · Homewood

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 39 employers in Homewood, AL · 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 1938 - Glen Burnie North 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2392 - Stafford Township 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2419 - Houston Eldridge Pkwy 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1383 - West Fullerton 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Industry Services Company, Inc. 281 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 4581 281 FTE
STATE-SIZE 740 281 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fossil Generation E.C. Gaston Steam Plant 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1481 334 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1481 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR USD 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayfield - Birmingham IC 189 FTE
NAT-TCR 2392 - Stafford Township 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 1938 - Glen Burnie North 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 9090-Brush Creek Ranch 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Harvest Sherwood Food Distributors Denver 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2403 - Fort Collins East 281 FTE
NAT-SIZE HNN Associates LLC 281 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charleston County Aviation Authority (All Establishments) 281 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burlington Richmond Plant 281 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.