Grocery Stores · North Carolina

00454 - Store # 454 Valdese

Valdese, NC · ~76 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

00454 - Store # 454 Valdese runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Grocery Stores workplace, earning a grade B.

00454 - Store # 454 Valdese: 2.3 TCR = 68% of Grocery Stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

00454 - Store # 454 Valdese safety composite

00454 - Store # 454 Valdese scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

00454 - Store # 454 Valdese: 0.0 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2023

00454 - Store # 454 Valdese's TCR rose 4.6 from 0.0 in 2022 to 4.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Valdese, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 68% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #529/1627
  • PHOTO Store 1059
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 1059 (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · North Carolina employers → · Look up another →

00454 - Store # 454 Valdese in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows 00454 - Store # 454 Valdese averages 2.3 TCR (68% of the Grocery Stores BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

00454 - Store # 454 Valdese TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=4.6 · BLS 3.4

Where 00454 - Store # 454 Valdese falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Stores establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #529 safest of 1627 Grocery Stores employers in North Carolina.

00454 - Store # 454 Valdese (76 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 00454 - Store # 454 Valdese
00454 - Store # 454 Valdese (76 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

00454 - Store # 454 Valdese has fewer employees than the Grocery Stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 4.6 2.3 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Valdese

30,654 Grocery Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 20 employers in Valdese, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Store 1059 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CASH SAVER #3802 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bashas 035 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10237 Arroyo 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Universal Healthcare Brunswick 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE WNC5 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peak Resources-Outer Banks 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mebane Ridge Assisted Living 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Perkins Plant 449 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valdese Weavers (Main) 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saft America Inc. 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR VALDESE NC PLANT 203 FTE
NAT-TCR Safco Products - Virginia 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Magnum Contracting Corporate 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lanmills, LLC Plant 2 Plateau Road 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lanmills, LLC Monterey Warehouse 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Roses Brands 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jaguar Land Rover Bellevue Inc 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jon'S Nursery Inc. 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenwald & B.C. Inc. 76 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.