Family Clothing Stores · Virginia
837 Falls Church, Va
Falls Church, VA · ~49 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 7.3
- Avg TCR
- 3.4
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
837 Falls Church, Va runs at 215% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Family Clothing Stores workplace, earning a grade F.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 7.3
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.4
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 6
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares 837 Falls Church, Va's OSHA Total Case Rate of 7.3 to the Family Clothing Stores BLS benchmark of 3.4 (215% of benchmark) across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.
Injury rate over time
837 Falls Church, Va's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.4 industry benchmark.
Where 837 Falls Church, Va falls in its industry
903 Family Clothing Stores establishmentsSafer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.
Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 25 Family Clothing Stores employers in Virginia.
837 Falls Church, Va has an average TCR of 7.3, which is 215% of the industry average (3.4) for Family Clothing Stores. This is significantly worse than average.
The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.
Trend analysis for 837 Falls Church, Va
Between 2018 and 2020, 837 Falls Church, Va's Total Case Rate worsened from 3.2 to 15.7 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 396% increase across 2 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2019, at a TCR of 3.1, while 2020 saw the highest rate, at 15.7, a spread of 12.5 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 3 reporting years, 837 Falls Church, Va recorded 6 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 6 injuries shown on this page for 837 Falls Church, Va are sourced from its own 3 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 448140 - Family Clothing Stores.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2020)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
4 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 51,086 hours worked = 15.66 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 837 Falls Church, Va (this establishment) | 7.32 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg |
| Clothing stores, family industry avg | 3.40 | BLS IIF, NAICS 448140 |
| Virginia state avg (all industries) | 4.16 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by 837 Falls Church, Va to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2020: 4 reportable incidents · 4 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 1 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 1 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 15.7 | 15.7 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 3.2 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on 837 Falls Church, Va's reported OSHA injury record versus its Family Clothing Stores peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 215% of the Family Clothing Stores benchmark, 837 Falls Church, Va reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Family Clothing Stores sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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