All Other General Merchandise Stores · Maryland

5228

Columbia, MD · ~219 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5228 runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical All Other General Merchandise Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

5228: 4.6 TCR = 136% of All Other General Merchandise Stores BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5228 safety composite

5228 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−3.9

2016→2022

5228 injury rate improved

5228's TCR fell 3.9 from 5.9 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.9 · 2018=8.9 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Columbia, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 136% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #28/48
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #849 …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~219 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #849 TEAYS VALLEY, WV (0.0 TCR gap)

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5228 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5228 averages 4.6 TCR (136% 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

5228 TCR series: 2016=5.9 · 2018=8.9 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=1.9 · BLS 3.4

Where 5228 falls in its industry

2,120 All Other General Merchandise establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 48 All Other General Merchandise employers in Maryland.

5228 (219 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 5228
5228 (219 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

5228 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
2022 1.9 0.6 3 0 0
2021 1.9 0.7 3 0 0
2020 2.7 1.4 4 0 0
2019 6.3 2.5 10 0 0
2018 8.9 4.5 14 2 0
2016 5.9 4.3 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · MD · Columbia

2,120 All Other General Merchandise Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 179 employers in Columbia, MD · 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 Big Lots Store #849 TEAYS VALLEY, WV 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1990 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2901 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5352 South Point, OH 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Clark Civil LLC 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shop Rite of Tmonium 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2248-65010 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4818-MD10 218 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howard County General Hospital 1,952 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate HQ 712 FTE
CITY-NEAR NuVasive Clinical Services Monitoring, Inc 621 FTE
CITY-NEAR NuVasive Clinical Services Monitoring Inc - Columbia 586 FTE
NAT-TCR River Road 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1003 - Woodland Ca Whse 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1070 - Rego Park Ny Whse 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Roses 262 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of Raynham 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orthopaedic Specialty Group, P.C. 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1198 - Pleasant Prairie Wi Whse 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kohler SCDC - DeSoto TX. (SMRU13491) 219 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.