Department Stores · Kansas

Shopko Hometown #696 (Norton, KS)

Norton, KS · ~19 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shopko Hometown #696 (Norton, KS) runs at 239% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Shopko Hometown #696 (Norton, KS): 8.1 TCR = 239% of Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shopko Hometown #696 (Norton, KS) safety composite

Shopko Hometown #696 (Norton, KS) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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 #696 (Norton, KS): 7.1 → 17.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 17.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.13× in 2018

Shopko Hometown #696 (Norton, KS)'s TCR rose 10.2 from 7.1 in 2016 to 17.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Norton, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 239% of ind

  • DART 17.3 DART
  • RANK #42/45
  • PHOTO 1250 - Maryville
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1250 - Maryville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shopko Hometown #696 (Norton, KS) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shopko Hometown #696 (Norton, KS) averages 8.1 TCR (239% 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 #696 (Norton, KS) TCR series: 2016=7.1 · 2017=0 · 2018=17.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Shopko Hometown #696 (Norton, KS) falls in its industry

4,991 Department Stores establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 45 Department Stores employers in Kansas.

Shopko Hometown #696 (Norton, KS) (19 employees, TCR 8.1) 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 #696 (Norton, KS)
Shopko Hometown #696 (Norton, KS) (19 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Shopko Hometown #696 (Norton, KS) has fewer employees than the Department Stores 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
2018 17.3 17.3 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 7.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · KS · Norton

4,991 Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 7 employers in Norton, KS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 1250 - Maryville 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2420 - Porterville 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 89 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2354 - Phoenix Spectrum 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ottawa Service Center 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Caney Valley Electric Cooperative Association, Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE LLK LLC dba L & L Construction 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wichita Home Works LLC 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Age Industrial HQ 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR Norton County Hospital 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Natoma Manufacturing, LLC 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Norton Valley Hope 47 FTE
NAT-TCR Champion Strattanville 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Price Transfer Inc. 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Victory Packaging Charlotte 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ADA Traffic Control, ltd 8.1 TCR

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.