General Merchandise Stores · Texas

Store 0279

Temple, TX · ~20 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Store 0279 runs at 292% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General Merchandise Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Store 0279: 9.9 TCR = 292% of General Merchandise Stores BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Store 0279 safety composite

Store 0279 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 9.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

Store 0279: 0.0 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 15.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Store 0279's TCR rose 6.2 from 0.0 in 2017 to 6.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 15.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444240 · Temple, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.9 · 292% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #27/77
  • PHOTO Store 1137
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 1137 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Store 0279 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Store 0279 averages 9.9 TCR (292% of the General Merchandise Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Store 0279 TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=15.4 · 2020=14 · 2021=11.9 · 2022=11.9 · 2023=6.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Store 0279 falls in its industry

676 General Merchandise Stores establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 10.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 77 General Merchandise Stores employers in Texas.

Store 0279 (20 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 21 employees and a TCR of 10.4 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 050100150 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Store 0279
Store 0279 (20 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 21 employees and a TCR of 10.4

Store 0279 has fewer employees than the General Merchandise Stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 10.4. 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
2023 6.2 0.0 1 0 0
2022 11.9 0.0 2 0 0
2021 11.9 0.0 2 0 0
2020 14.0 0.0 2 0 0
2018 15.4 0.0 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444240 · TX · Temple

676 General Merchandise Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 177 employers in Temple, TX · 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 Store 1137 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0123 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0764 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tractor Supply Company Store 1953 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms TXP 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE CANNONADE SOD FARM 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmers Cooperative Society #1 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Slaton Coop Gin 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Temple 5,743 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scott & White Memorial Hospital 4,839 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baylor Scott & White Health 4,081 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLINIC-TEMPLE REGION 1,633 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1137 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Recology Oregon Recovery 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fresh Ideas Management- Peru State College 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR HG613 9.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store 0247 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 0234 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 0363 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 0365 20 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.