Grocery stores · South Carolina

Hills #21

Loris, SC · ~24 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hills #21 runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Hills #21: 5.7 TCR = 168% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hills #21 safety composite

Hills #21 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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 5.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Hills #21: 0.0 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.02× in 2021

Hills #21's TCR rose 5.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 5.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Loris, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 168% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #626/789
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 153
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 153 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hills #21 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hills #21 averages 5.7 TCR (168% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Hills #21 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=11.1 · 2018=11.8 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=5.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Hills #21 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 37% 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 #626 safest of 789 Grocery stores employers in South Carolina.

Hills #21 (24 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 Hills #21
Hills #21 (24 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Hills #21 has fewer employees than the Grocery 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
2021 5.8 5.8 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 11.8 11.8 2 0 0
2017 11.1 5.6 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · SC · Loris

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 18 employers in Loris, 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 The Fresh Market 153 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 601LAN 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 003-FRIONA 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dave's Fresh Marketplace of East Greenwich 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE ISE Newberry Silverstreet Processing 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Timberlands 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aiken Substation/Transmission 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meter Lab (Columbia) 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR MCLEOD-LORIS COMMUNITY HOSP 449 FTE
CITY-NEAR McLeod Health Loris 409 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHF Industries, Inc. - Distribution Facility 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Loris Rehab and Nursing Center 103 FTE
NAT-TCR Office 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Easton Senior Care LLC 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Waters Septic Tank Service 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR South Dakota #47 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Baish Excavating, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE P2P 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arellano Imperial Inc 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Howard's Excavating & Paving 24 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.