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 # 0911 Omaha, NE B 2.6
Unit # 2916 Olean, NY B 2.6
Unit # 2985 Davenport, FL B 2.6
Brookwood Village 746 Birmingham, AL B 2.6
Galleria At Crystal Run 197 Middletown, NY B 2.6
Unit # 2224 Huntsville, TX B 2.6
STR0294 Jacksonville, FL B 2.6
STR0785 Jonesville, SC B 2.6
Unit # 1130 Tucson, AZ B 2.6
Unit # 2209 Bakersfield, CA B 2.6
Unit # 2372 Beaufort, SC B 2.6
Unit # 2457 Syracuse, NY B 2.6
Metro Center - Downtown DC 068 Washington, DC B 2.6
STR0689 Knoxville, TN B 2.6
028 - Twelve Oaks Novi, MI B 2.6
Unit # 2175 Monroe, LA B 2.6
Unit # 2944 Cypress, TX B 2.6
Store 0006 Gastonia Gastonia, NC B 2.6
Store 0530 Farmville Farmville, VA B 2.6
Store 0255 Nacogdoches Nacogdoches, TX B 2.6
71488 City of Industry, CA B 2.6
Unit #1228 Marshalltown, IA B 2.6
Unit #2341 Bend, OR B 2.6
Unit # 1212 West Mifflin, PA B 2.6
Unit # 1965 Goodlettsville, TN B 2.6
Unit # 2507 Lake Charles, LA B 2.6
Boulevard 146 Amherst, NY B 2.6
Unit # 1462 Springfield, VA B 2.5
Herald Square 003 New York, NY B 2.5
STR0582 Centerville, GA B 2.5
STR0199 Paragould, AR B 2.5
Store 0449 Kinston Kinston, NC B 2.5
Unit # 1943 Hurst, TX B 2.5
Chula Vista Center 546 Chula Vista, CA B 2.5
West County 652 Saint Louis, MO B 2.5
Quaker Bridge 065 Lawrenceville, NJ B 2.5
Unit # 2165 North Dartmouth, MA B 2.5
Citrus Park 832 Tampa, FL B 2.5
STR0288 Conway, SC B 2.5
Unit # 2749 Sterling, VA B 2.5
Store 0423 HUNTSVILLE Huntsville, AL B 2.5
Store 0638 Bowling Green Bowling Green, KY B 2.5
Unit # 0681 Kingsport, TN B 2.5
Unit # 1923 San Jose, CA B 2.5
Unit # 1928 Hopkinsville, KY B 2.5
Florence 565 Florence, KY B 2.5
Hampton Bays 171 Hampton Bays, NY B 2.5
STR0553 Pineville, NC B 2.5
Unit # 0395 Hermitage, PA B 2.5
Unit # 2443 Waldorf, MD B 2.5
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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.