Department stores (except discount department stores) · Ohio

Elder-Beerman 147

Name: Elder-Beerman 147 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Wooster, OH · ~59 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.5
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Elder-Beerman 147 runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Department stores (except discount department stores) workplace, earning a grade C.

Elder-Beerman 147: 3.5 TCR = 103% of Department stores (except discount department stores) BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Elder-Beerman 147 safety composite

Elder-Beerman 147 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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).

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 3.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

Elder-Beerman 147: 0.0 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

Elder-Beerman 147's TCR rose 7.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 7.0 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452111 · Wooster, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 103% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #36/52
PHOTO Store 0351 Branson
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 0351 Branson (0.0 TCR gap)

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Store 0351 Bra

3.5
Unit # 1603

3.5
Unit # 2719

3.5
Harford 060

3.5

What this shows Elder-Beerman 147 averages 3.5 TCR (103% of the Department stores (except discount department stores) BLS benchmark).

Elder-Beerman 147 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=7 · BLS 3.4

Where Elder-Beerman 147 falls in its industry

1,987 Department stores (except disc establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 52 Department stores (except disc employers in Ohio.

Elder-Beerman 147 (59 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Elder-Beerman 147 has more employees than the Department stores (except discount depar median and a higher 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	7.0	0.0	2	0	0
2016	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452111 · OH · Wooster

1,987 Department stores (except discount department stores) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 133 employers in Wooster, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Store 0351 Branson	BRANSON, MO	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Unit # 1603	RALEIGH, NC	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Unit # 2719	OMAK, WA	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Harford 060	BEL AIR, MD	3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Transmission Columbus Svc Ctr	COLUMBUS	59 FTE
STATE-SIZE	JK Excavating, Inc.	MASON	59 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Brumbaugh Construction, Inc	ARCANUM	59 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Moraine Office & Miscellaneous Projects	MORAINE	59 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Scaheffler Transmissions LLC	Wooster	1,907 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LuK USA LLC	Wooster	1,814 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Schaeffler Transmission LLC	Wooster	1,662 FTE
CITY-NEAR	College of Wooster	Wooster	771 FTE
NAT-TCR	Pottsville (Papot)	St. Clair, PA	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Huntsville (Alhun)	Huntsville, AL	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Dresseler Mechanical Inc	Marquette, MI	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Omaha South	Omaha, NE	3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Aerobraze OKC	Oklahoma City, OK	59 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ritter Communications - Millington	Millington, TN	59 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Big Save - Koloa	Koloa, HI	59 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Legends - Ascend Amphitheater	Nashville, TN	59 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.