Book stores · Oregon

Powell's Books -- Hawthorne

Portland, OR · ~33 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Powell's Books -- Hawthorne runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Book stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Powell's Books -- Hawthorne: 6.4 TCR = 189% of Book stores BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Powell's Books -- Hawthorne safety composite

Powell's Books -- Hawthorne scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Powell's Books -- Hawthorne: 0.0 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 25.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.31× in 2024

Powell's Books -- Hawthorne's TCR rose 8.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 8.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 25.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 189% of ind

  • DART 8.4 DART
  • RANK P10
  • PHOTO Powell's Books -- Bu…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Powell's Books -- Burnside (1.3 TCR gap)

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Powell's Books -- Hawthorne in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Powell's Books -- Hawthorne averages 6.4 TCR (189% 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 -- Hawthorne TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=3.9 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2021=5.6 · 2022=8.4 · 2023=25.1 · 2024=8.4 · BLS 3.4

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

10 Book stores establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Powell's Books -- Hawthorne (33 employees, TCR 6.4) 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, LPMBS DirectSlingshotPowell's Books -- BurnsideSchuler BooksPowell's Books -- Cedar Hills CrossingPowell's Books -- Hawthorne
Powell's Books -- Hawthorne (33 employees, TCR 6.4) among 6 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 159 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Powell's Books -- Hawthorne has fewer 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 8.4 8.4 2 0 0
2023 25.1 20.9 1 5 0
2022 8.4 4.2 2 0 0
2021 5.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 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 Powell's Books -- Burnside 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schuler Books 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ingram Lightning Source 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lightning Source Inc 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Block Graphics -2 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE SHMG - Keizer 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Air Reps, LLC - Portland 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE YMCA Association Services Office 33 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 LP Harrodsburg, LLC 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Rochester Davis-Fetch Corp. 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Signature Condominiums llc 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Miller Mechanical Contractors & Engineers, LLC 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Diana Hoover 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Canton Floors Inc 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Willowbrook Store #2303 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Globaltech Motor & Controls, Inc. 33 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.