Industry profile · NAICS 452111

Department stores (except discount department stores)

Name: Department stores (except discount department stores) Workplace Safety Data
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Workplace injury rates across 2,383 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore Editorial, Employer Workplace Safety Editorial Team · May 15, 2026

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	Location	Grade
Unit # 2184	College Station, TX	C
Unit # 2197	Garden City, KS	C
Unit # 2198	Kirksville, MO	C
Unit # 2203	Valdosta, GA	C
Unit # 2211	Bartlesville, OK	C
Unit # 2220	Dyersburg, TN	C
Unit # 2225	Defiance, OH	C
Unit # 2240	Conway, AR	C
Unit # 2243	Ponderay, ID	C
Unit # 2282	Lancaster, OH	C
Unit # 2298	Kelso, WA	C
Unit # 2324	Madison, IN	C
Unit # 2341	Bend, OR	C
Unit # 2343	Piqua, OH	C
Unit # 2345	Mount Airy, NC	C
Unit # 2354	Sunnyside, WA	C
Unit # 2356	West Plains, MO	C
Unit # 2357	Plymouth, IN	C
Unit # 2369	Norman, OK	C
Unit # 2374	Saint George, UT	C
Unit # 2381	Greenville, MI	C
Unit # 2385	Yuba City, CA	C
Unit # 2386	Morgantown, WV	C
Unit # 2396	Canandaigua, NY	C
Unit # 2416	Concord, NH	C
Unit # 2427	Hazard, KY	C
Unit # 2431	Cottonwood, AZ	C
Unit # 2447	Starkville, MS	C
Unit # 2449	Campbellsville, KY	C
Unit # 2460	Massena, NY	C
Unit # 2470	Maysville, KY	C
Unit # 2524	Wareham, MA	C
Unit # 2622	Cape Coral, FL	C
Unit # 2655	Douglas, AZ	C
Unit # 2671	Mcminnville, OR	C
Unit # 2672	Henderson, NC	C
Unit # 2687	Sequim, WA	C
Unit # 2695	E Liverpool, OH	C
Unit # 2702	Gretna, LA	C
Unit # 2705	Lake Wales, FL	C
Unit # 2721	Sedalia, MO	C
Unit # 2742	Turlock, CA	C
Unit # 2755	Paso Robles, CA	C
Unit # 2762	Tampa, FL	C
Unit # 2782	Kearney, NE	C
Unit # 2807	Muskegon, MI	C
Unit # 2812	Columbus, NE	C
Unit # 2841	Del Rio, TX	C
Unit # 2936	Casa Grande, AZ	C
Unit # 2941	Moore, OK	C

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

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

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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