Department stores (except discount department stores) · Pennsylvania

bonton

Allentown, PA · ~106 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

bonton runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Department stores (except discount department stores) workplace, earning a grade C.

bonton: 2.9 TCR = 86% of Department stores (except discount department stores) BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

bonton safety composite

bonton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

Rising injury rate

bonton: 1.8 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.39× in 2017

bonton's TCR rose 2.2 from 1.8 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452111 · Allentown, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 86% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #19/46
  • PHOTO Unit # 1081
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~106 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Unit # 1081 (0.0 TCR gap)

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bonton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows bonton averages 2.9 TCR (86% of the Department stores (except discount department stores) BLS benchmark).

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

bonton TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=4.1 · BLS 3.4

Where bonton falls in its industry

1,987 Department stores (except disc establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 46 Department stores (except disc employers in Pennsylvania.

bonton (106 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate bonton
bonton (106 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3

bonton has more employees than the Department stores (except discount depar median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2017 4.1 4.1 2 0 0
2016 1.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452111 · PA · Allentown

1,987 Department stores (except discount department stores) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 447 employers in Allentown, PA · 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 # 1081 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rozier's 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit #1212 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit #2915 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE McKeesport 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Miller Bros Construction Inc 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE TCCo-PIT 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE GWS Lehigh 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lehigh Valley Hospital 9,463 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1200SCC 6,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Main Campus 2,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR LOCATION 48042 1,728 FTE
NAT-TCR 0584 - Medina, Oh 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office - 01 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Castle Manor 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ploy Blown Extrusions 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rimrock Villa 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peapod S&S Cromwell, Ct 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Russell Construction Company.Inc. 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Piper Plastics, Chandler 106 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.