General Merchandise Stores · North Carolina

Store 0439

Shelby, NC · ~24 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Store 0439 runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General Merchandise Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Store 0439: 5.8 TCR = 170% of General Merchandise Stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Store 0439 safety composite

Store 0439 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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)
B 5.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
D 6.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

−10.0

2020→2023

Store 0439 injury rate improved

Store 0439's TCR fell 10.0 from 16.6 in 2020 to 6.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 16.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=16.6 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=6.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444240 · Shelby, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 170% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #10/42
  • PHOTO Powell
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Powell (0.0 TCR gap)

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Store 0439 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Store 0439 averages 5.8 TCR (170% 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 0439 TCR series: 2020=16.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=6.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Store 0439 falls in its industry

676 General Merchandise Stores establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 10.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 42 General Merchandise Stores employers in North Carolina.

Store 0439 (24 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 0439
Store 0439 (24 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 21 employees and a TCR of 10.4

Store 0439 has more 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 6.6 6.6 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 16.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444240 · NC · Shelby

676 General Merchandise Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 100 employers in Shelby, 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 Powell 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0635 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 2458 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 044 - Ogilvie Ag Center & Bulk 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Open Grounds Farm, Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Super-Sod Charlotte 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland Farms, Inc 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE CENTRAL LNM-EST 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1111-Atrium Health Cleveland (1111) 1,174 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6070 1,160 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0080-Atrium Health Cleveland 1,158 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0080-CHS Cleveland 1,093 FTE
NAT-TCR Arvada Service Center-160 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gourmet Ranch 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 235 Tennyson Street 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Core-Mark Tampa 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store 0414 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 0389 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 0370 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 0356 24 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. 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.