All Other General Merchandise Stores · Connecticut

2897

Southington, CT · ~172 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

2897 runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical All Other General Merchandise Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

2897: 5.9 TCR = 175% of All Other General Merchandise Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

2897 safety composite

2897 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

2897: 5.7 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2021

2897's TCR rose 0.8 from 5.7 in 2016 to 6.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Southington, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 175% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #32/58
  • PHOTO 1963
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~172 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1963 (0.0 TCR gap)

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2897 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 2897 averages 5.9 TCR (175% of the All Other General Merchandise Stores BLS benchmark).

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

2897 TCR series: 2016=5.7 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=6.5 · 2020=5.8 · 2021=6.5 · BLS 3.4

Where 2897 falls in its industry

2,120 All Other General Merchandise establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 58 All Other General Merchandise employers in Connecticut.

2897 (172 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 2897
2897 (172 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

2897 has more employees than the All Other General Merchandise Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2021 6.5 5.7 8 0 0
2020 5.8 3.3 7 0 0
2019 6.5 2.9 8 1 0
2018 5.3 3.8 7 0 0
2016 5.7 1.4 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · CT · Southington

2,120 All Other General Merchandise Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 57 employers in Southington, CT · 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 1963 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1684 BOONE, NC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1761 Dubois, PA 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4038 SAN DIEGO, CA 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rogers Corporation ACS-E 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hubbell Newtown 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stamford Town Center 020 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2156 - Waterbury 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yarde Metals, Inc.: Connecticut 384 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yarde Metals Southington CT 314 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2434 - Southington 247 FTE
CITY-NEAR SOUTHINGTON CARE CENTER 246 FTE
NAT-TCR Red Diamond, Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Republic Services Hickory NC 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Nexus Plastics, Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR GCF 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Performance Batesville - 0620 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alamp Concrete 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1319 - Mount Pleasant Sc Whse 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Lion Brewery 172 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.