Retail Store · North Carolina

Ross store 536

Gastonia, NC · ~45 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Ross store 536 runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Retail Store workplace, earning a grade B.

Ross store 536: 2.2 TCR = 64% of Retail Store BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ross store 536 safety composite

Ross store 536 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.6

2016→2020

Ross store 536 injury rate improved

Ross store 536's TCR fell 5.6 from 5.6 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.6 · 2017=5.4 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Gastonia, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 64% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #27/113
  • PHOTO WM 1537
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WM 1537 (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · North Carolina employers → · Look up another →

Ross store 536 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ross store 536 averages 2.2 TCR (64% 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 536 TCR series: 2016=5.6 · 2017=5.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Ross store 536 falls in its industry

4,991 Retail Store establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 113 Retail Store employers in North Carolina.

Ross store 536 (45 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 536
Ross store 536 (45 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Ross store 536 has fewer employees than the Retail Store median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 5.4 5.4 1 0 0
2016 5.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · NC · Gastonia

4,991 Retail Store 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR WM 1537 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 986 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 1546 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 76 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Happy Holiday Christmas Trees 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cracon, Inc. 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE GOMEZ HARVESTING 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lewisville Operations Center 45 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 Ross store 1546 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 76 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 986 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1083 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1653 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1835 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 853 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 766 45 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.