Department stores except discount department stores · North Carolina

STR0449

Kinston, NC · ~40 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

STR0449 runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Department stores except discount department stores workplace, earning a grade D.

STR0449: 4.5 TCR = 131% of Department stores except discount department stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

STR0449 safety composite

STR0449 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

STR0449 held a steady TCR band

STR0449's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.0 · 2022=11.2 · 2023=6.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452111 · Kinston, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 131% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #100/125
  • PHOTO L.L.Home
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: L.L.Home (0.0 TCR gap)

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STR0449 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows STR0449 averages 4.5 TCR (131% of the Department stores except discount department stores BLS benchmark).

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

STR0449 TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=11.2 · 2023=6.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where STR0449 falls in its industry

1,987 Department stores except disco establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #100 safest of 125 Department stores except disco employers in North Carolina.

STR0449 (40 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate STR0449
STR0449 (40 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3

STR0449 has fewer employees than the Department stores except discount depart median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 6.7 6.7 1 0 0
2022 11.2 11.2 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452111 · NC · Kinston

1,987 Department stores except discount department stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 86 employers in Kinston, 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 L.L.Home 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit #0671 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit # 2237 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Riverchase Galleria 747 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gary Thomas Farms 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-State Turf of NC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fords Produce Company Inc 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pender Nursery Inc. 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanderson Farms Kinston Processing 1,564 FTE
CITY-NEAR Caswell Developmental Center 1,256 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Lenoir Health Care 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Health Lenoir 744 FTE
NAT-TCR Grants Pass 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR EB Care Center 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Myrl & Roy's Paving 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 084 Taylor MI 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE STR0353 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0544 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0638 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0673 40 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: 2024, 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.