General Merchandise Stores · North Carolina

Store 1637

Lincolnton, NC · ~20 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Store 1637 runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General Merchandise Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Store 1637: 5.2 TCR = 153% of General Merchandise Stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Store 1637 safety composite

Store 1637 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 5.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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 1637: 0.0 → 15.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 15.6 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2023

Store 1637's TCR rose 15.6 from 0.0 in 2021 to 15.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 153% of ind

  • DART 15.6 DART
  • RANK #9/42
  • PHOTO Store 0535
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 0535 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Store 1637 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Store 1637 averages 5.2 TCR (153% 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 1637 TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=15.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Store 1637 falls in its industry

676 General Merchandise Stores establishments

Safer than 83% 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 #9 safest of 42 General Merchandise Stores employers in North Carolina.

Store 1637 (20 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 1637
Store 1637 (20 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 21 employees and a TCR of 10.4

Store 1637 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 15.6 15.6 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444240 · NC · Lincolnton

676 General Merchandise Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 71 employers in Lincolnton, 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 Store 0535 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tractor Supply Company Store 2098 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1674 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1755 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Steve Thomas Farms 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kent Smith Farms 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ron Richmond 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thomas Family Farms, Inc. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR RSI Home Products 769 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1109-Atrium Health Lincoln (1109) 672 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Woodmark Corporation 671 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0050-Atrium Health Lincoln 653 FTE
NAT-TCR Wonton Food Inc New York Noodle 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation - Jessup 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 10-75 Emergency Vehicles, LLC 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Zarsky Lumber Co - Corpus Christi 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store 1668 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1532 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1960 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1964 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. 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.