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

5291

Columbia, SC · ~126 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5291 runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

5291: 5.0 TCR = 148% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5291 safety composite

5291 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

5291: 2.4 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.54× in 2022

5291's TCR rose 9.2 from 2.4 in 2016 to 11.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Columbia, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 148% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #576/789
  • PHOTO Lowes Foods #235
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~126 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lowes Foods #235 (0.0 TCR gap)

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5291 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5291 averages 5.0 TCR (148% 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 2026-08-25

5291 TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2018=7.9 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=11.6 · BLS 3.4

Where 5291 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #576 safest of 789 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in South Carolina.

5291 (126 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 5291
5291 (126 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

5291 has more employees than the Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except C median and a higher 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 11.6 7.7 12 0 0
2021 1.8 0.0 1 1 0
2020 4.2 3.1 4 0 0
2019 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2018 7.9 6.8 6 1 0
2016 2.4 2.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · SC · Columbia

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 542 employers in Columbia, SC · 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 Lowes Foods #235 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1238 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10147 Fort Collins 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 035-00560 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Milliken & Company - Enterprise Plant 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Paper Georgetown Container Plant 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bid Group Tech S.C. 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE C501 Marion 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmetto Health Richland 5,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prisma Health Richland 4,729 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Carolina Department of Transportation 4,400 FTE
CITY-NEAR SC Department of Transportation 3,864 FTE
NAT-TCR Care & Rehab Barron 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Rockville 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Quikrete - Hsa 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Round Pond 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE SI Group - Freeport 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE RA Caters NE* 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nardone Electrical Corp 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at United Club Iah Per Pax 126 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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