Food (i.e., groceries) stores · North Carolina

Bryson's Food Store

Highlands, NC · ~47 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bryson's Food Store runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food (i.e., groceries) stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Bryson's Food Store: 4.7 TCR = 137% of Food (i.e., groceries) stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bryson's Food Store safety composite

Bryson's Food Store scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

Bryson's Food Store held a steady TCR band

Bryson's Food Store's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 20.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=20.2 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=8.3 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Highlands, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 137% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1281/1627
  • PHOTO Food Depot #73
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Food Depot #73 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bryson's Food Store in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bryson's Food Store averages 4.7 TCR (137% of the Food (i.e., groceries) stores BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Bryson's Food Store TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=20.2 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=8.3 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Bryson's Food Store falls in its industry

30,654 Food (i.e., groceries) stores establishments

Safer than 50% 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 #1281 safest of 1627 Food (i.e., groceries) stores employers in North Carolina.

Bryson's Food Store (47 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 Bryson's Food Store
Bryson's Food Store (47 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Bryson's Food Store has fewer employees than the Food (i.e., groceries) stores 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2021 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2020 5.4 0.0 2 0 0
2019 8.3 0.0 3 0 0
2018 2.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 20.2 2.9 7 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Highlands

30,654 Food (i.e., groceries) stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 4 employers in Highlands, 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 Food Depot #73 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store #18 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1327 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1329 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Monroe NC Operations 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dan River Steam Station 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hickory Resource Center PNG 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smith Douglas Charlotte 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR MH Highlands-Cashiers Medical Center, LLLP 208 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tate LS 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reeves Hardware - Highlands 33 FTE
NAT-TCR South Dakota Partners Inc 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Scheerer Bearing Corporation 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Miami Nursing Center 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sparks 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Teledyne Instruments Inc. d/b/a Teledyne Cable Solutions - Regal Row 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hedlund Electric, Inc. 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE ACRA Electric Inc 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Green Bay Seven Up Bottling Company, Inc. 47 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.