General stores · Pennsylvania
Five Below Inc
Philadelphia, PA · ~19,600 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 3.5
- Avg TCR
- 3.4
- Industry avg
- 1
- Fatality
The verdict
Five Below Inc runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General stores workplace, earning a grade C.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 3.5
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.4
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 1
- worker fatalities on record
Grade compares Five Below Inc's OSHA Total Case Rate of 3.5 to the General stores BLS benchmark of 3.4 (102% of benchmark) across 7 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.
Injury rate over time
Five Below Inc's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.4 industry benchmark.
Where Five Below Inc falls in its industry
2,400 General stores establishmentsSafer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.
Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 94 General stores employers in Pennsylvania.
Trend analysis for Five Below Inc
Between 2018 and 2024, Five Below Inc's Total Case Rate worsened from 1.4 to 2.5 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 84% increase across 6 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2018, at a TCR of 1.4, while 2019 saw the highest rate, at 5.7, a spread of 4.4 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 7 reporting years, Five Below Inc recorded 2,175 total injuries and illnesses and 1 fatality. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 7-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 2,175 injuries, 20 illnesses, and 1 fatality shown on this page for Five Below Inc are sourced from its own 7 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 452990 - General stores.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
201 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 26,633,178 hours worked = 1.51 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Five Below Inc (this establishment) | 3.46 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg |
| Catalog showrooms, general merchandise (except catalog mail-order) industry avg | 3.40 | BLS IIF, NAICS 452990 |
| Pennsylvania state avg (all industries) | 5.06 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Five Below Inc to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 330 reportable incidents · 321 injuries, 9 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 444 reportable incidents · 444 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 418 reportable incidents · 418 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 330 reportable incidents · 321 injuries, 9 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 211 reportable incidents · 210 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 380 reportable incidents · 379 injuries, 0 illnesses, 1 fatality - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 83 reportable incidents · 82 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 321 | 9 | 0 |
| 2023 | 3.9 | 1.9 | 444 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 3.9 | 1.9 | 418 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 3.5 | 2.1 | 321 | 9 | 0 |
| 2020 | 3.4 | 1.5 | 210 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 5.7 | 2.0 | 379 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 82 | 1 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Five Below Inc's reported OSHA injury record versus its General stores peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 102% of the General stores benchmark, Five Below Inc reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider General stores sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.