Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores · North Carolina

3504

Hickory, NC · ~122 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

3504 runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores workplace, earning a grade C.

3504: 2.8 TCR = 81% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

3504 safety composite

3504 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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

3504: 1.3 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.35× in 2022

3504's TCR rose 3.5 from 1.3 in 2018 to 4.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Hickory, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 81% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #738/1627
  • PHOTO SWY-0027-0027-01807 …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~122 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SWY-0027-0027-01807 FAC-01807-EAGLE RIVER-AK (0.0 TCR gap)

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3504 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 3504 averages 2.8 TCR (81% of the Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores BLS benchmark).

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

3504 TCR series: 2018=1.3 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=3 · 2022=4.8 · BLS 3.4

Where 3504 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 80% 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 #738 safest of 1627 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in North Carolina.

3504 (122 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 3504
3504 (122 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

3504 has more employees than the Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except C 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
2022 4.8 1.0 5 0 0
2021 3.0 2.0 3 0 0
2020 2.1 1.1 2 0 0
2019 2.5 0.0 2 0 0
2018 1.3 1.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Hickory

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 240 employers in Hickory, 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 SWY-0027-0027-01807 FAC-01807-EAGLE RIVER-AK 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5925 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Saver Foods #18 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3025 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trader Joe's 0741 Cary 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manor Care Health Services - Pinehurst 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Special Service Freight Company of the Carolinas, Inc. 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brian Center Health & Rehabilitation/Goldsboro 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Catawba Valley Medical Center 2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merchants Distributors LLC 1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frye Regional Medical Center 1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center 1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR Chicago Parts Distribution Center 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Whispering Oaks 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Usi - Eagle Express 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tinker AFB, Civil Engineering Services 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE New Dimensions Precision Machining, LLC 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE EDA Contruction Inc. 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at W&M Sadler Building 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE CANTEX INC. Auburndale 122 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.