Grocery stores · North Carolina

Hills Food Store #1

Whiteville, NC · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Hills Food Store #1 runs at 275% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Hills Food Store #1: 9.4 TCR = 275% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hills Food Store #1 safety composite

Hills Food Store #1 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.89 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 Food Store #1: 5.1 → 11.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2024

Hills Food Store #1's TCR rose 6.7 from 5.1 in 2022 to 11.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 275% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #1574/1627
  • PHOTO SWY-0025-0025-01465 …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SWY-0025-0025-01465 FAC-01465-SAN JOSE-CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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

Hills Food Store #1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hills Food Store #1 averages 9.4 TCR (275% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Hills Food Store #1 TCR series: 2022=5.1 · 2023=11.2 · 2024=11.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Hills Food Store #1 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 14% 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 #1574 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Hills Food Store #1 (25 employees, TCR 9.4) 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 Food Store #1
Hills Food Store #1 (25 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Hills Food Store #1 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
2024 11.8 5.9 1 1 0
2023 11.2 5.6 2 0 0
2022 5.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Whiteville

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 35 employers in Whiteville, 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-0025-0025-01465 FAC-01465-SAN JOSE-CA 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 955 Jef70 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tops #716 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4054-ABS-0030-0030-01227 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fair View Nursery, Inc. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE John William Carter III 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill of Berry's 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Andrew Tyson Farms 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbus Regional Healthcare System 669 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Labor Services, LLC 394 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1268 314 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1268 279 FTE
NAT-TCR Clinton County Road Commission 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lincoln Park Rehabilitation and Health Care Center 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Zoological Society of Buffalo 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Conesus Lake Nursing Home 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Grizzly Construction, Inc 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Freightliner of Lebanon 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Citizens Ambulance Service Inc 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Office 25 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. 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.