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 # 2914 Little Rock, AR C 2.9
Unit # 0916 Carolina, PR C 2.9
STR0356 Shreveport, LA C 2.8
091 - Rockingham Park Salem, NH C 2.8
The Bon Ton Wilkes-Barre, PA C 2.8
STR0124 Greenville, TX C 2.8
Unit # 0951 Dover, DE C 2.8
Unit # 1858 Chillicothe, OH C 2.8
Spring Hill 281 West Dundee, IL C 2.8
Square One 226 Saugus, MA C 2.8
Willowbrook 076 Wayne, NJ C 2.8
Unit # 0739 N Charleston, SC C 2.8
Unit # 2814 Elmhurst, NY C 2.8
Sanford Winslow, ME C 2.8
Store 0573 Saint Marys Saint Marys, GA C 2.8
048 - Fair Oaks Fairfax, VA C 2.8
Bergner's Peoria, IL C 2.8
Unit # 1956 Plantation, FL C 2.8
Unit # 2052 Clarion, PA C 2.8
Greenwood Park 602 Greenwood, IN C 2.8
Farm King Corporate Office Macomb, IL C 2.8
STR0503 Sumter, SC C 2.8
Unit # 1134 Scranton, PA C 2.8
Unit # 2904 Austin, TX C 2.8
Orland Square 261 Orland Park, IL C 2.8
Brooklyn - Downtown 002 Brooklyn, NY C 2.8
Brewer Winslow, ME C 2.8
Unit # 0611 Lubbock, TX C 2.8
Unit # 2287 Mays Landing, NJ C 2.8
Unit # 2626 Henderson, NV C 2.8
Fashion Square 315 Saginaw, MI C 2.8
New York-Main Store New York, NY C 2.8
Belk Store 604 Birmingham Birmingham, AL C 2.8
Carson's Stratford Square #535 Bloomingdale, IL C 2.8
Unit # 2453 Blasdell, NY C 2.8
Waterville Store Winslow, ME C 2.8
Store 0599 Toccoa Toccoa, GA C 2.8
Store 0694 CHATTANOOGA Chattanooga, TN C 2.8
Unit #1142 Los Banos, CA C 2.8
Unit # 2864 Maplewood, MN C 2.8
STR0673 Gautier, MS C 2.8
Unit # 0993 San Antonio, TX C 2.8
Unit # 1940 Greendale, WI C 2.8
Store 0564 Elkin Elkin, NC C 2.8
Southtown Herberger's 355 Bloomington, MN C 2.8
Elder Beerman Hurricane, WV C 2.8
Unit # 2685 Arlington, TX C 2.8
Bloomingdale's Upper West Side Outlet New York, NY C 2.8
Newport Centre 174 Jersey City, NJ C 2.7
STR0560 Hartsville, SC C 2.7
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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.