Department stores, discount · Alabama

Auburn Dirt Cheap

Auburn, AL · ~38 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Auburn Dirt Cheap runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Department stores, discount workplace, earning a grade D.

Auburn Dirt Cheap: 4.5 TCR = 133% of Department stores, discount BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Auburn Dirt Cheap safety composite

Auburn Dirt Cheap scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−8.9

2017→2023

Auburn Dirt Cheap injury rate improved

Auburn Dirt Cheap's TCR fell 8.9 from 8.9 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.9 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=9.1 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Auburn, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 133% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #33/64
  • PHOTO Unit #0224
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Unit #0224 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Auburn Dirt Cheap in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Auburn Dirt Cheap averages 4.5 TCR (133% of the Department stores, discount BLS benchmark).

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

Auburn Dirt Cheap TCR series: 2017=8.9 · 2021=0 · 2022=9.1 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Auburn Dirt Cheap falls in its industry

4,991 Department stores, discount establishments

Safer than 49% 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 #33 safest of 64 Department stores, discount employers in Alabama.

Auburn Dirt Cheap (38 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 Auburn Dirt Cheap
Auburn Dirt Cheap (38 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Auburn Dirt Cheap has fewer employees than the Department stores, discount 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 9.1 9.1 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 8.9 8.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · AL · Auburn

4,991 Department stores, discount employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 113 employers in Auburn, 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 Unit #0224 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit #2740 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 470 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 1449 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Milstead Farm Group, Inc. 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Division Selma Office 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eufaula State Docks Road Complex 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mobile Division Schillingers Road 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Briggs & Stratton 602 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4021-000017263 456 FTE
CITY-NEAR 000017263 AUBURN UNIVERSITY DINING 432 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 356 344 FTE
NAT-TCR Genesee Street #026 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cortland #178 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Higginbotham Automobiles LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Enlightenment School 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Westview Orchards 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE VAPULA-S0C-PULASKI 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE CAROSE-AEG-ROSEVILLE 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cabk21-Aeg-Bakersfield 21st 38 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 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.