Thrift shops, used merchandise · North Carolina

Ballantyne Store

Charlotte, NC · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ballantyne Store runs at 306% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Thrift shops, used merchandise workplace, earning a grade F.

Ballantyne Store: 10.4 TCR = 306% of Thrift shops, used merchandise BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ballantyne Store safety composite

Ballantyne Store scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

−13.9

2016→2018

Ballantyne Store injury rate improved

Ballantyne Store's TCR fell 13.9 from 17.4 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 17.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=17.4 · 2018=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 453310 · Charlotte, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 306% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #30/31
  • PHOTO Waterbury Store
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Waterbury Store (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ballantyne Store in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ballantyne Store averages 10.4 TCR (306% of the Thrift shops, used merchandise BLS benchmark).

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

Ballantyne Store TCR series: 2016=17.4 · 2018=3.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Ballantyne Store falls in its industry

1,556 Thrift shops, used merchandise establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 31 Thrift shops, used merchandise employers in North Carolina.

Ballantyne Store (26 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ballantyne Store
Ballantyne Store (26 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Ballantyne Store has fewer employees than the Thrift shops, used merchandise median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2018 3.4 0.0 0 1 0
2016 17.4 17.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

453310 · NC · Charlotte

1,556 Thrift shops, used merchandise employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, 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 Waterbury Store 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1125 Totem Lake 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Aid Inc 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 103 - North Kansas City Retail Store 10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE R. A. Wood Farms, Inc. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yarbrough Farms LLC 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTH LNM- EST 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Goldsboro Hatchery 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR Arlington Center (Waarl) 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Laconia (Nhlac) 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Associate Milk Producers Inc (Jim Falls) 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sacramento - 302 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0765 - Roseburg, or 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0391 - Avondale, Az 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0215 - Philadelphia, Pa 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0213 - Jacksonville West, Fl 26 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: 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.