Department Stores · Minnesota

Shopko Hometown #629 (Ely, MN)

Ely, MN · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shopko Hometown #629 (Ely, MN) runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Department Stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Shopko Hometown #629 (Ely, MN): 4.0 TCR = 118% of Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shopko Hometown #629 (Ely, MN) safety composite

Shopko Hometown #629 (Ely, MN) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% 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 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Shopko Hometown #629 (Ely, MN): 5.5 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Shopko Hometown #629 (Ely, MN)'s TCR rose 1.0 from 5.5 in 2016 to 6.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Ely, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 118% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #42/131
  • PHOTO 1358 - White Plains
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1358 - White Plains (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shopko Hometown #629 (Ely, MN) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shopko Hometown #629 (Ely, MN) averages 4.0 TCR (118% of the Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Shopko Hometown #629 (Ely, MN) TCR series: 2016=5.5 · 2017=0 · 2018=6.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Shopko Hometown #629 (Ely, MN) falls in its industry

4,991 Department Stores establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 131 Department Stores employers in Minnesota.

Shopko Hometown #629 (Ely, MN) (25 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Shopko Hometown #629 (Ely, MN)
Shopko Hometown #629 (Ely, MN) (25 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Shopko Hometown #629 (Ely, MN) has fewer employees than the Department Stores 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
2018 6.5 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 5.5 5.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · MN · Ely

4,991 Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 18 employers in Ely, MN · 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 1358 - White Plains 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1804 - University Heights 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2716 - Highlands Ranch 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit #2862 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Hutchinson, MN 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Park Rapids Trucking 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Country Pork LLP 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics MN IPH 03-0110-10, 50, 51, 52, 970 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ely-Bloomenson Community Hospital 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Minnesota Department of Revenue - Ely 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grand Ely Lodge 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR Camp Widjiwagan 70 FTE
NAT-TCR Comfort Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Roswell Bookbinding 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ShoreCare 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR AgMart Produce, Inc. LELAND, NC 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shopko Hometown #705 (Trenton, MO) 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Hometown #745 (Winner, SD) 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Hometown #753 (Hot Springs, SD) 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shop 25 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: 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.