Industry profile · NAICS 452990
Catalog showrooms, general merchandise (except catalog mail-order)
Workplace injury rates across 2,397 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.
- 2,397
- Employers
- 4.6
- Avg TCR
- 3.4
- BLS benchmark
- 26,789
- Injuries
The industry picture
Employers in Catalog showrooms, general merchandise (except catalog mail-order) average 4.6 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.4 times the BLS national benchmark of 3.4.
- 4.6
- avg TCR · reporting employers
- 3.4
- BLS national benchmark
- 2,397
- employers reporting
- 26,789
- recordable injuries
OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.
What Catalog showrooms, general merchandise (except catalog mail-order) Safety Data Reveals
The Catalog showrooms, general merchandise (except catalog mail-order) sector (NAICS 452990) encompasses 2,397 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 26,789 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.6 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 3.4 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 4.6 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.
The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Catalog showrooms, general merchandise (except catalog mail-order) that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.
Employers in this industry, by injury rate
Page 13 of 48| Employer | Location | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Lots Store #256 SEYMOUR, IN | Seymour, IN | D | 5.6 |
| 2319 | Oak Harbor, WA | D | 5.6 |
| 606 | Savannah, GA | D | 5.6 |
| 2264 | Schenectady, NY | D | 5.6 |
| 1715 | Easton, MD | D | 5.6 |
| Stockdales Oakland | Oakland, TN | D | 5.6 |
| Basin Coop Inc. | Durango, CO | D | 5.6 |
| Big Lots Store #3 AUGUSTA, GA | Augusta, GA | D | 5.6 |
| Big Lots Store #1520 WEST SENECA, NY | West Seneca, NY | D | 5.6 |
| 2144 | Torrington, CT | D | 5.6 |
| Big Lots Store #1601 FLINT, MI | Flint, MI | D | 5.5 |
| 5996 | Escondido, CA | D | 5.5 |
| Big Lots Store #4532 Mansfied, TX | Mansfield, TX | D | 5.5 |
| Big Lots Stores #4530 BIDDEFORD, ME | Biddeford, ME | D | 5.5 |
| 5384 | Bridgeton, NJ | D | 5.5 |
| Mast General Store - Boone | Boone, NC | D | 5.5 |
| Runnings of Watertown | Watertown, SD | D | 5.5 |
| Big Lots Store #5409 Cincinnati, OH | Cincinnati, OH | D | 5.5 |
| 1808 | Steamboat Springs, CO | D | 5.5 |
| 5345 | Dunkirk, MD | D | 5.5 |
| Big Lots Store #5196 Lakeland, FL | Lakeland, FL | D | 5.5 |
| Big Lots Store #1403 WILMINGTON, NC | Wilmington, NC | D | 5.5 |
| 1887 | Montoursville, PA | D | 5.5 |
| 3455 | Richmond, CA | D | 5.5 |
| Big Lots Store #556 TAMPA, FL | Tampa, FL | D | 5.5 |
| 2747 | Warwick, RI | D | 5.5 |
| Big Lots Store #4550 College Station | College Station, TX | D | 5.5 |
| Big Lots Store #4108 SOUTH OGDEN, UT | South Ogden, UT | D | 5.5 |
| Big Lots Store #1609 WASHINGTON, PA | Washington, PA | D | 5.5 |
| 117 West Woonsocket RI | Woonsocket, RI | D | 5.5 |
| Runnings of Malone | Malone, NY | D | 5.5 |
| Big Lots Store #4554 Indio, CA | Indio, CA | D | 5.5 |
| Big Lots Store #5176 Pickerington, OH | Pickerington, OH | D | 5.5 |
| Big Lots Store #4647 Lubbock, TX | Lubbock, TX | D | 5.5 |
| Big Lots Store #216 SHEPHERDSVILLE, KY | Shepherdsville, KY | D | 5.4 |
| Big Lots Store #1164 SHELBYVILLE, IN | Shelbyville, IN | D | 5.4 |
| Big Lots Store #1158 ATHENS, AL | Athens, AL | D | 5.4 |
| Big Lots Stores #4685 Longmont, CO | Longmont, CO | D | 5.4 |
| Big Lots Store #5140 Mobile, AL | Mobile, AL | D | 5.4 |
| 2308 | Lihue, HI | D | 5.4 |
| Big Lots Store #4615 Elgin, IL | Elgin, IL | D | 5.4 |
| 2917 | Islandia, NY | D | 5.4 |
| 5202 | Commack, NY | D | 5.4 |
| 5111 | Watchung, NJ | D | 5.4 |
| Big Lots Store #4256 RIVERSIDE, CA | Riverside, CA | D | 5.4 |
| Big Lots Store #1247 RICHMOND, IN | Richmond, IN | D | 5.4 |
| Big Lots Store #1918 Sacramento, CA | Sacramento, CA | D | 5.4 |
| 1562 | Coon Rapids, MN | D | 5.4 |
| 626 | Seminole, TX | D | 5.4 |
| 2582 | Clinton, NJ | D | 5.4 |
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