Department stores (except discount department stores) · Kentucky

Elder Beerman

Frankfort, KY · ~72 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Elder Beerman runs at 303% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Department stores (except discount department stores) workplace, earning a grade F.

Elder Beerman: 10.3 TCR = 303% of Department stores (except discount department stores) BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Elder Beerman safety composite

Elder Beerman scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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).

F

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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: 6.5 → 14.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 14.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2017

Elder Beerman's TCR rose 7.6 from 6.5 in 2016 to 14.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452111 · Frankfort, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 303% of ind

  • DART 14.1 DART
  • RANK #33/34
  • PHOTO Orscheln Farm and Ho…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Orscheln Farm and Home LLC 041 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Elder Beerman in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Elder Beerman averages 10.3 TCR (303% 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

Elder Beerman TCR series: 2016=6.5 · 2017=14.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Elder Beerman falls in its industry

1,987 Department stores (except disc establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 34 Department stores (except disc employers in Kentucky.

Elder Beerman (72 employees, TCR 10.3) 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 Elder Beerman
Elder Beerman (72 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Elder Beerman 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 14.1 14.1 4 0 0
2016 6.5 6.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452111 · KY · Frankfort

1,987 Department stores (except discount department stores) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 104 employers in Frankfort, KY · 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 Orscheln Farm and Home LLC 041 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0468 Euless 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR STR0522 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit # 1959 10.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE GADDIE SHAMROCK, LLC 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Office 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diageo Americas Supply 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stearns Plant 1 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYTC Central Office 945 FTE
CITY-NEAR Human Resource Bldg 892 FTE
CITY-NEAR Montaplast of North America Inc 784 FTE
CITY-NEAR EECSOWER 754 FTE
NAT-TCR La Crosse (Wilac) 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Johnsbury (Vtsjo) 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Anderson Center (Scand) 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunbury (Pasun) 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hydro - Burlington 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Lincoln County Inc 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Location #3 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Location #2 72 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.