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
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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.

Five Below Inc: 3.5 TCR = 102% of General stores BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Five Below Inc safety composite

Five Below Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 0% 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

Five Below Inc: 1.4 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2024

Five Below Inc's TCR rose 1.1 from 1.4 in 2018 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Philadelphia, PA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 102% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #25/88
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #1757…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 2,175 inj
  • SIZE ~19,600 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #1757 Hinesville, GA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Five Below Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Five Below Inc averages 3.5 TCR (102% of the General stores BLS benchmark).

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

Five Below Inc TCR series: 2018=1.4 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Five Below Inc falls in its industry

2,120 General stores establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 88 General stores employers in Pennsylvania.

Five Below Inc (19,600 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 05,00010,00015,00020,00025,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Five Below Inc
Five Below Inc (19,600 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Five Below Inc has more employees than the General stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 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

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · PA · Philadelphia

2,120 General stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 1,431 employers in Philadelphia, 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 Big Lots Store #1757 Hinesville, GA 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5197 Elizabeth, NJ 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5445 Macon, GA 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1821 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE United States Steel COrporation 15,229 FTE
STATE-SIZE University of Pittsburgh- Oakland 14,135 FTE
STATE-SIZE UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside (PUH) 13,900 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hospital of University of Pennsylvania 13,423 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Main Hospital 9,638 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Main Campus 9,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thomas Jefferson University Hospital 6,673 FTE
CITY-NEAR *Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia 5,720 FTE
NAT-TCR Inman Operations LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Construction 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Waterford at Corpus Christi 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pegasus Laboratories 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brigham Young University 19,671 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Air Lines - ATL Airport 19,423 FTE
NAT-SIZE BYU Risk Management 19,098 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brigham and Womens Hospital 19,004 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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