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
STR0281 Spanish Fort, AL A 1.5
Location - #051 York, PA A 1.5
Unit # 0663 North Little Rock, AR A 1.5
MCCS South Clearwater, FL A 1.5
STR0581 Rock Hill, SC A 1.5
Unit # 2698 Tracy, CA A 1.5
Unit # 2797 Steubenville, OH A 1.5
Unit # 2909 Dardenne Prairie, MO A 1.5
Independence 179 Kingston, MA A 1.5
Store 0311 Gallatin Gallatin, TN A 1.5
Unit # 0273 Gaithersburg, MD A 1.5
Unit # 1327 Greensboro, NC A 1.5
Unit # 2367 Youngstown, OH A 1.5
Bergner's Forsyth, IL A 1.5
Elder Beerman New Philadelphia, OH A 1.5
Location - #191 Dayton, OH A 1.5
Unit # 0582 Toledo, OH A 1.5
Citrine Group LLC - Bechants Boerne, TX A 1.5
Store 0083 GOLDSBORO Goldsboro, NC A 1.5
Unit # 2064 Hot Springs Nat Pk, AR A 1.5
Unit # 2847 Tarentum, PA A 1.5
Farm King Kewanee Kewanee, IL A 1.5
Unit #0687 Athens, GA A 1.5
Unit # 0652 Peoria, IL A 1.5
Elder Beerman Bridgeport, WV A 1.5
Unit # 2079 Danville, VA A 1.5
Unit # 2244 North Attleboro, MA A 1.5
STR0296 Waco, TX A 1.4
STR0109 Ocala, FL A 1.4
Store 0196 FAYETTEVILLE Fayetteville, GA A 1.4
Unit # 0209 Abingdon, MD A 1.4
Unit # 0529 Hagerstown, MD A 1.4
Unit # 1493 Westerly, RI A 1.4
Unit # 1503 Harrisonburg, VA A 1.4
Concord 162 Wilmington, DE A 1.4
STR0408 Bluefield, WV A 1.4
Kettering Kettering, OH A 1.4
Carson's Warsaw, IN A 1.4
Unit # 0910 Bay City, MI A 1.4
STR0584 Williamston, NC A 1.4
Unit # 2066 Okemos, MI A 1.4
Unit # 2370 Chesapeake, VA A 1.4
STR0269 Bainbridge, GA A 1.4
Unit # 0251 Glendale, AZ A 1.4
Unit # 0304 Longview, TX A 1.4
Store 0553 Pineville Pineville, NC A 1.4
Store 0385 Weatherford Weatherford, TX A 1.4
Unit # 0687 Athens, GA A 1.4
Unit # 1953 Hialeah, FL A 1.4
Unit # 2715 Corbin, KY A 1.4
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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.