General Merchandise Stores · North Carolina

Store 2279

Columbus, NC · ~18 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Store 2279 runs at 205% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General Merchandise Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Store 2279: 7.0 TCR = 205% of General Merchandise Stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Store 2279 safety composite

Store 2279 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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 2279: 9.9 → 17.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 17.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2.58× in 2023

Store 2279's TCR rose 8.1 from 9.9 in 2020 to 17.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 205% of ind

  • DART 17.9 DART
  • RANK #17/42
  • PHOTO Tractor Supply Compa…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tractor Supply Company Store 1761 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Store 2279 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Store 2279 averages 7.0 TCR (205% 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 2279 TCR series: 2020=9.9 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=17.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Store 2279 falls in its industry

676 General Merchandise Stores establishments

Safer than 71% 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 #17 safest of 42 General Merchandise Stores employers in North Carolina.

Store 2279 (18 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 2279
Store 2279 (18 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 21 employees and a TCR of 10.4

Store 2279 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 17.9 17.9 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 9.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444240 · NC · Columbus

676 General Merchandise Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 17 employers in Columbus, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Tractor Supply Company Store 1761 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1109 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1383 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0542 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pikeville 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sweet Potato Packing House 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laurinburg 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Leggett 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Luke's Hospital 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR ACTS Retirement-Life Communities - Tryon Estates 233 FTE
CITY-NEAR ACTS Retirement-Life Communities-Tryon Estates 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milliken Hatch 77 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1109 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Advocate Christ Medical Center 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Works 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR McKay's Market Empire #2 7.0 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: 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.