Industry profile · NAICS 452111

Department stores (except discount department stores)

Workplace injury rates across 2,383 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

2,383
Employers
3.8
Avg TCR
3.4
BLS benchmark
11,474
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Department stores (except discount department stores) average 3.8 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.1 times the BLS national benchmark of 3.4.

3.8
avg TCR · reporting employers
3.4
BLS national benchmark
2,383
employers reporting
11,474
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Department stores (except discount department stores) Safety Data Reveals

The Department stores (except discount department stores) sector (NAICS 452111) encompasses 2,383 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 11,474 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 3.8 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 3.8 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 Department stores (except discount department stores) 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

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
Unit # 2480 Moreno Valley, CA D 4.8
Aurora Town Center 350 Aurora, CO D 4.8
Unit # 2442 Show Low, AZ D 4.8
Tallahassee Governor's Sq 837 Tallahassee, FL D 4.8
053 - Rockaway Rockaway, NJ D 4.8
Elder Beerman Ashland, KY D 4.8
Unit # 2616 Centerville, GA D 4.8
Hilltop 329 Richmond, CA D 4.8
Town Center Plaza 609 Leawood, KS D 4.8
Unit # 0194 Lanham, MD D 4.8
STR0322 Lynchburg, VA D 4.8
Store 0415 New Braunfels New Braunfels, TX D 4.8
Nampa Gateway 401 Nampa, ID D 4.8
Mall At Greece Ridge 143 Rochester, NY D 4.8
Fordham Place Bronx, NY D 4.8
STR0737 Blythewood, SC D 4.7
710 - Leesburg Leesburg, VA D 4.7
Store 0130 Washington Washington, NC D 4.7
Unit # 2074 Orange Park, FL D 4.7
Orscheln Farm and Home LLC 053 St. Joseph, MO D 4.7
Unit # 1337 Downey, CA D 4.7
Unit # 2171 Escondido, CA D 4.7
Eagle Rock Plaza 509 Los Angeles, CA D 4.7
Westside Pavilion Furniture 521 Los Angeles, CA D 4.7
Gainesville Oaks 836 Gainesville, FL D 4.7
Freehold Raceway 017 Freehold, NJ D 4.7
Orscheln Farm and Home LLC 125 Warsaw, MO D 4.7
Unit # 2840 Montgomery, AL D 4.7
Unit # 0259 Temple, TX D 4.7
Unit # 2123 Bossier City, LA D 4.7
Unit # 2905 Fort Worth, TX D 4.7
Unit # 2868 Mt Juliet, TN D 4.7
Florida Mall 811 Orlando, FL D 4.7
Colonie Center 083 Albany, NY D 4.7
Unit #2239 Salina, KS D 4.7
Unit # 2011 Lynnwood, WA D 4.7
Unit # 2275 Twin Falls, ID D 4.7
Castleton Square 598 Indianapolis, IN D 4.7
Unit # 1531 Langhorne, PA D 4.7
STR0513 Orangeburg, SC D 4.7
Unit #0681 Kingsport, TN D 4.7
71520 Los Angeles, CA D 4.6
Store 0283 Morehead City Morehead City, NC D 4.6
Unit # 1248 Somerset, KY D 4.6
Montclair Plaza 486 Montclair, CA D 4.6
Aventura Miami, FL D 4.6
Victor Valley 557 Victorville, CA D 4.6
STR0350 St. Augustine, FL D 4.6
Store 0239 Savannah Savannah, GA D 4.6
Store 0285 Rogers Rogers, AR D 4.6
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Working in Department stores (except discount department stores)?

This sector averages 3.8 against a BLS benchmark of 3.4 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.