General Merchandise Stores · North Carolina

Store 1698

Lumberton, NC · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Store 1698 runs at 251% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General Merchandise Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Store 1698: 8.6 TCR = 251% of General Merchandise Stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Store 1698 safety composite

Store 1698 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

Store 1698 held a steady TCR band

Store 1698's TCR held near 0.0 from 8.6 in 2021 to 8.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=8.6 · 2022=8.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452319 · Lumberton, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 251% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK #47/59
  • PHOTO Store 1853
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 1853 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Store 1698 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Store 1698 averages 8.6 TCR (251% 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 1698 TCR series: 2021=8.6 · 2022=8.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Store 1698 falls in its industry

1,513 General Merchandise Stores establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #47 safest of 59 General Merchandise Stores employers in North Carolina.

Store 1698 (21 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 24 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Store 1698
Store 1698 (21 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 24 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Store 1698 has fewer employees than the General Merchandise Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2022 8.6 8.6 0 1 0
2021 8.6 8.6 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452319 · NC · Lumberton

1,513 General Merchandise Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 80 employers in Lumberton, 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 1853 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4186-02070 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1598 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 2043 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Timothy Yarbrough 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty NC Breeders 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE NCJA1-SEL-JASON 1' 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunburst Trout Farms 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC HEALTH SOUTHEASTERN 1,792 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1155 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1155 385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quickie Manufacturing 307 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1853 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1175 - Cumming Ga Whse 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Water Plant 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Colormasters 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store 1702 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1727 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1662 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1776 21 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: 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.