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 14 of 48| Employer | Location | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Lots Store #4612 Wenatchee, WA | Wenatchee, WA | D | 5.4 |
| Big Lots Store #5105 Avon, IN | Avon, IN | D | 5.4 |
| 2109 | Millville, NJ | D | 5.4 |
| Big Lots Store #4742 Rockwall, TX | Rockwall, TX | D | 5.4 |
| Big Lots Store #1938 TEMECULA, CA | Temecula, CA | D | 5.4 |
| Runnings of Baker | Baker, MT | D | 5.4 |
| Big Lots Store #517 JACKSONVILLE, FL | Jacksonville, FL | D | 5.4 |
| Big Lots Store #1636 PONTIAC, MI | Pontiac, MI | D | 5.4 |
| 1895 | Fairlawn, OH | D | 5.4 |
| Big Lots Store #4001 RIVERSIDE, CA | Riverside, CA | D | 5.4 |
| 2490 | Roeland Park, KS | D | 5.4 |
| 2170 | Norwich, CT | D | 5.4 |
| Big Lots Store #4473 OILDALE, CA | Oildale, CA | D | 5.4 |
| 473 Sanford ME | Sanford, ME | D | 5.4 |
| Big Lots Store #1310 CLARKSVILLE, IN | Clarksville, IN | D | 5.4 |
| Big Lots Store #4541 Puyallup, WA | Puyallup, WA | D | 5.4 |
| 2853 | La Plata, MD | D | 5.4 |
| 114 Middletown RI | Middletown, RI | D | 5.4 |
| 322 Bloomfield CT | Bloomfield, CT | D | 5.4 |
| Big Lots Store #378 KANAWHA CITY, WV | Charleston, WV | D | 5.4 |
| Big Lots Store #4012 EL CAJON, CA | El Cajon, CA | D | 5.4 |
| 220 Norwood MA | Norwood, MA | D | 5.4 |
| Big Lots Store #4458 FARMINGTON, NM | Farmington, NM | D | 5.3 |
| 1972 | Livermore, CA | D | 5.3 |
| Roses 450 | Burnsville, NC | D | 5.3 |
| Big Lots Store #5460 Prince Frederick, MD | Prince Frederick, MD | D | 5.3 |
| 893 | Lindsay, OK | D | 5.3 |
| 1933 | Northlake, IL | D | 5.3 |
| Roses 1836 | Fort Valley, GA | D | 5.3 |
| 249 Taunton MA | Taunton, MA | D | 5.3 |
| Big Lots Store #1977 SEDALIA, MO | Sedalia, MO | D | 5.3 |
| 747 | Cahokia, IL | D | 5.3 |
| Big Lots Store #205 SOMERSET, KY | Somerset, KY | D | 5.3 |
| Big Lots Store #1759 Austintown, OH | Austintown, OH | D | 5.3 |
| Big Lots Store #86 ALTON, IL | Alton, IL | D | 5.3 |
| 1175 | Flagstaff, AZ | D | 5.3 |
| Big Lots Store #1171 STOCKBRIDGE, GA | Stockbridge, GA | D | 5.3 |
| 1843 | Mcminnville, OR | D | 5.3 |
| 871 | Mountain View, MO | D | 5.3 |
| Big Lots Store #4765 Mount Pleasant, TX | Mount Pleasant, TX | D | 5.3 |
| Big Lots Store #5437 Delaware, OH | Delaware, OH | D | 5.3 |
| Big Lots Store #1311 LOUISVILLE, KY | Louisville, KY | D | 5.3 |
| Runnings of Springfield | Springfield, MN | D | 5.3 |
| 2167 | Exton, PA | D | 5.3 |
| 3545 | Hamden, CT | D | 5.3 |
| Big Lots Store #4566 Frisco, TX | Frisco, TX | D | 5.3 |
| Big Lots Store #1091 TULSA, OK | Tulsa, OK | D | 5.3 |
| Big Lots Store #346 LOUISVILLE, KY | Louisville, KY | D | 5.3 |
| 2326 | Hornell, NY | D | 5.3 |
| 2373 | Warwick, RI | D | 5.3 |
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