Book stores · Oregon

Powell's Books -- Burnside

Portland, OR · ~190 workers · 8 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

Powell's Books -- Burnside runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Book stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Powell's Books -- Burnside: 5.2 TCR = 151% of Book stores BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Powell's Books -- Burnside safety composite

Powell's Books -- Burnside scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

−1.3

2016→2024

Powell's Books -- Burnside injury rate improved

Powell's Books -- Burnside's TCR fell 1.3 from 4.7 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.7 · 2017=6.5 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=4.4 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=8.6 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 451211 · Portland, OR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 151% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK P20
  • PHOTO Schuler Books
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~190 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schuler Books (0.2 TCR gap)

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Powell's Books -- Burnside in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Powell's Books -- Burnside averages 5.2 TCR (151% of the Book stores BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Powell's Books -- Burnside TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2017=6.5 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=4.4 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=8.6 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Powell's Books -- Burnside falls in its industry

10 Book stores establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Powell's Books -- Burnside (190 employees, TCR 5.2) among 6 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 3.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 7 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 0100200300400 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Tree of Life Bookstores, LPPowell's Books -- HawthorneMBS DirectSlingshotSchuler BooksPowell's Books -- Cedar Hills CrossingPowell's Books -- Burnside
Powell's Books -- Burnside (190 employees, TCR 5.2) among 6 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Powell's Books -- Burnside has more employees than the Book stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2024 3.4 3.4 2 2 0
2023 4.2 4.2 2 3 0
2022 8.6 6.7 1 8 0
2021 5.7 5.7 4 0 0
2019 4.4 4.4 7 0 0
2018 3.7 2.5 6 0 0
2017 6.5 6.0 10 1 0
2016 4.7 4.7 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

451211 · OR · Portland

10 Book stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 1,728 employers in Portland, OR · 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 Schuler Books 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Powell's Books -- Hawthorne 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lightning Source Inc 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lightning Source 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE OIE 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 6837 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0248 LOWE S OF MEDFORD OR. 190 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lane Forest Products 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR OHSU Main Campus 18,003 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR349 PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL CTR-PORTLA 4,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR346 PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL CTR-PORTLAND 3,684 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000530 3,498 FTE
NAT-TCR Plant 43 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR APP PRO of Appleton, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Marquette Food Cooperative, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR LNC 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE E&R Monroeville 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maag Gala, Inc. 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE 007-STL 190 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tallahassee Operations 190 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.