Retail Store · Alabama

Ross store 1602

Gadsden, AL · ~29 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ross store 1602 runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Store workplace, earning a grade D.

Ross store 1602: 6.6 TCR = 194% of Retail Store BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ross store 1602 safety composite

Ross store 1602 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

Ross store 1602 held a steady TCR band

Ross store 1602's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 16.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=7.9 · 2018=8.4 · 2019=16.8 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Gadsden, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 194% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #48/64
  • PHOTO 0108 - Evansville No…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0108 - Evansville North (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ross store 1602 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ross store 1602 averages 6.6 TCR (194% of the Retail Store BLS benchmark).

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

Ross store 1602 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=7.9 · 2018=8.4 · 2019=16.8 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Ross store 1602 falls in its industry

4,991 Retail Store establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #48 safest of 64 Retail Store employers in Alabama.

Ross store 1602 (29 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ross store 1602
Ross store 1602 (29 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Ross store 1602 has fewer employees than the Retail Store median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 16.8 8.4 2 0 0
2018 8.4 8.4 1 0 0
2017 7.9 7.9 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · AL · Gadsden

4,991 Retail Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 82 employers in Gadsden, AL · 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 0108 - Evansville North 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1002 - Bel Air 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1167 - Glenview 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 2490 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grand Bay 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid Star Wood Haulers 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oak Grove - APC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gardendale Crew Headquarters - APC 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Gadsden Alabama 1,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gadsden Regional Medical Center 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods Gadsden Processing Plant 1,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods Gadsden Plant 850 FTE
NAT-TCR Ross store 222 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1720 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 414 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Paradigm Metals, Inc 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1969 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1849 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1417 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1479 29 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: 2020, 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.