Industry profile · NAICS 455211

Retail

Workplace injury rates across 1,492 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

1,492
Employers
5.0
Avg TCR
3.4
BLS benchmark
67,808
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Retail average 5.0 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.5 times the BLS national benchmark of 3.4.

5.0
avg TCR · reporting employers
3.4
BLS national benchmark
1,492
employers reporting
67,808
recordable injuries

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

What Retail Safety Data Reveals

The Retail sector (NAICS 455211) encompasses 1,492 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 67,808 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.0 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 5.0 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 Retail 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
706-00119 Lehi, UT C 2.9
25320151 Garner, Nc Garner, NC C 2.9
050 - Cascade Grand Rapids, MI C 2.8
25320110 Cary, Nc Cary, NC C 2.8
1198 - Pleasant Prairie Wi Whse Plesant Prairie, WI C 2.8
230 - Noblesville Noblesville, IN C 2.8
2532-25320152 East Point, GA C 2.8
25320190 N. Bergen, Nj North Bergen, NJ C 2.8
0411 - Fountain Valley Ca Whse Fountain Valley, CA C 2.8
103 - Springboro Pike-Miami Dayton, OH C 2.8
128 - SR 331 Mishawaka Mishawaka, IN C 2.8
25320015 Wilmington, De New Castle, DE C 2.8
2532-25320206 Flushing, NY C 2.8
1244 - Hanford Ca Whse Hanford, CA C 2.8
035 - Taylor Taylor, MI C 2.8
706-00278 Saint George, UT C 2.8
705-00803 Kent, WA C 2.8
25320309 Tilton, Nh Tilton, NH C 2.8
282 - Alpena MI Alpena, MI C 2.8
0371 - Bloomingdale Il Whse Bloomingdale, IL C 2.8
111 - Marion Marion, OH C 2.7
121 - Grape Rd Mishawaka Mishawaka, IN C 2.7
123 - Southgate Southgate, MI C 2.7
25320129 Boynton Beach, Fl Boynton Beach, FL C 2.7
118 - Alexis Rd Toledo Toledo, OH C 2.7
024-00767 Lexington, KY C 2.7
25320382 Pensacola, Fl Pensacola, FL B 2.7
2532-25320370 Kearny, NJ B 2.7
036 - Clyde Park-Wyoming Wyoming, MI B 2.7
016-00805 Lewis Center, OH B 2.7
2532-25320096 Willoughby, OH B 2.7
2532-25320174 Hialeah, FL B 2.7
183 - Elgin IL Elgin, IL B 2.7
283 - Oak Creek Oak Creek, WI B 2.7
25320033 Fairfax, Va Fairfax, VA B 2.7
25320131 Westminster, Md Westminster, MD B 2.7
0445 - Yorba Linda Ca Whse Yorba Linda, CA B 2.7
0788 - West Des Moines Ia Whse West Des Moines, IA B 2.7
171 - Cadillac Cadillac, MI B 2.7
208 - Lincoln Park Lincoln Park, MI B 2.7
701-00021 Bend, OR B 2.7
25320111 Hialeah Gardens, Fl Hialeah Gardens, FL B 2.7
25320162 Philadelphia, Pa Philadelphia, PA B 2.7
204 - Mooresville Camby, IN B 2.7
25320073 Watchung, Nj Watchung, NJ B 2.7
25320072 Waldorf, Md Waldorf, MD B 2.7
296 - McCordsville IN Mccordsville, IN B 2.7
310 - Fremont MI Fremont, MI B 2.7
25320077 W. Nyack, Ny W. Nyack, NY B 2.7
053 - Waterford Waterford, MI B 2.6
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This sector averages 5.0 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.