Dollar Stores · North Carolina

4186-00138

Gastonia, NC · ~28 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

4186-00138 runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dollar Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

4186-00138: 6.9 TCR = 203% of Dollar Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

4186-00138 safety composite

4186-00138 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.8

2017→2021

4186-00138 injury rate improved

4186-00138's TCR fell 8.8 from 8.8 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 17.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.8 · 2018=8.4 · 2019=17.2 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452319 · Gastonia, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 203% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #38/59
  • PHOTO Store 1779
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 1779 (0.0 TCR gap)

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4186-00138 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 4186-00138 averages 6.9 TCR (203% of the Dollar Stores BLS benchmark).

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

4186-00138 TCR series: 2017=8.8 · 2018=8.4 · 2019=17.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.4

Where 4186-00138 falls in its industry

1,513 Dollar Stores establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 59 Dollar Stores employers in North Carolina.

4186-00138 (28 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 24 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate 4186-00138
4186-00138 (28 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 24 employees and a TCR of 5.8

4186-00138 has more employees than the Dollar Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 17.2 8.6 2 0 0
2018 8.4 0.0 1 0 0
2017 8.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452319 · NC · Gastonia

1,513 Dollar 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 Store 1779 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4186-02132 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4186-03174 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1911 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE H & D Farms, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE SMITH FARMS 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michael Morris Farms 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elkin Hatchery 28 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 Tom's Of Maine 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Interiors Jessup - Cleveland Construction 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Loma Clara Senior Living 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Family Life Center 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE JTHoover Concrete Inc 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kamps Erlanger 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Drury Inn & Suites - Greenville, SC 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Service 5215 28 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, 2017. 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.