Used merchandise stores · Texas

Ed Carey

Harlingen, TX · ~37 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ed Carey runs at 250% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Used merchandise stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Ed Carey: 8.5 TCR = 250% of Used merchandise stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ed Carey safety composite

Ed Carey scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ed Carey: 5.2 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 19.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Ed Carey's TCR rose 4.2 from 5.2 in 2021 to 9.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 19.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 453310 · Harlingen, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 250% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #117/166
  • PHOTO America's Thrift Sto…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: America's Thrift Store #3 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ed Carey in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ed Carey averages 8.5 TCR (250% of the Used merchandise stores BLS benchmark).

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

Ed Carey TCR series: 2021=5.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=19.4 · 2024=9.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Ed Carey falls in its industry

1,556 Used merchandise stores establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #117 safest of 166 Used merchandise stores employers in Texas.

Ed Carey (37 employees, TCR 8.5) 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 Ed Carey
Ed Carey (37 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Ed Carey has more employees than the Used merchandise stores 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
2024 9.4 0.0 2 0 0
2023 19.4 4.9 4 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 5.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

453310 · TX · Harlingen

1,556 Used merchandise stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 133 employers in Harlingen, TX · 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 America's Thrift Store #3 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo & Marin Counties, Inc.- FILLMORE STORE #5182 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Discover Goodwill of Southern & Western CO- Powers Retail Store 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thrift Books Global, LLC (Phoenix, AZ) 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fannin Growing 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bovina Cattle Company 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Skyland Grain, LLC- Spearman Gin 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alura Cogen 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-838 1,389 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harlingen Medical Center 661 FTE
CITY-NEAR TX_Harlingen_2921 S. Expswy 83_TCIP2T20 553 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 595 354 FTE
NAT-TCR Katzen 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Countryside Care Center, LLC 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DAS8 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DBM3 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wired Inc 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tilden Houses 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Latimer Gardens Consol 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spacetime Machine Co., Inc. 37 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.