Retail Hardware Stores · North Carolina

Gastonia, Nc #00369

Gastonia, NC · ~18 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gastonia, Nc #00369 runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Hardware Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Gastonia, Nc #00369: 5.2 TCR = 151% of Retail Hardware Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gastonia, Nc #00369 safety composite

Gastonia, Nc #00369 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

TCR Δ

−17.1

2019→2023

Gastonia, Nc #00369 injury rate improved

Gastonia, Nc #00369's TCR fell 17.1 from 17.1 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 17.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=17.1 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=8.6 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Gastonia, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 151% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/40
  • PHOTO GAINESVILLE, GA #00546
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GAINESVILLE, GA #00546 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gastonia, Nc #00369 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gastonia, Nc #00369 averages 5.2 TCR (151% of the Retail Hardware Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Gastonia, Nc #00369 TCR series: 2019=17.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=8.6 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Gastonia, Nc #00369 falls in its industry

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 40 Retail Hardware Stores employers in North Carolina.

Gastonia, Nc #00369 (18 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Gastonia, Nc #00369
Gastonia, Nc #00369 (18 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Gastonia, Nc #00369 has fewer employees than the Retail Hardware Stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 8.6 8.6 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 17.1 17.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · NC · Gastonia

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 182 employers in Gastonia, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR GAINESVILLE, GA #00546 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR PARAGOULD, AR #03108 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marvin's Atmore 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR EAST PEORIA, IL #00127 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pikeville 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sweet Potato Packing House 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laurinburg 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Leggett 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center 3,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston County Government 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
NAT-TCR American Red Cross - 4050 Lindell Blvd 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Commercial HVAC Americas : SVC-California Southwest Hawaii : SVC-Honolulu HI-USA 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Demo Company, LLC - Austin 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR McCoys Building Supply- Richwood 5.2 TCR

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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.