Grocery stores · North Carolina

Hills Food Store #12

Shallotte, NC · ~27 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hills Food Store #12 runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Hills Food Store #12: 5.8 TCR = 172% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hills Food Store #12 safety composite

Hills Food Store #12 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hills Food Store #12: 0.0 → 17.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 17.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Hills Food Store #12's TCR rose 17.5 from 0.0 in 2022 to 17.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 172% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1449/1627
  • PHOTO LAGUNA GARDENS
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LAGUNA GARDENS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hills Food Store #12 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hills Food Store #12 averages 5.8 TCR (172% 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 #12 TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=17.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Hills Food Store #12 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #1449 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Hills Food Store #12 (27 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 Hills Food Store #12
Hills Food Store #12 (27 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Hills Food Store #12 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 17.5 0.0 3 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Shallotte

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 22 employers in Shallotte, 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 LAGUNA GARDENS 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Fresh Market 081 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR FOODLAND #105 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rosauers #14 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bissette Farms, Inc 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hyde County Pullet Farm 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hyde County Pullet 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Price Logging Inc 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1767 338 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1767 325 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atlantic Telephone Membership Corporation 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1068 LOWE S OF SHALLOTTE NC 158 FTE
NAT-TCR Rockford Manufacturing Group Inc 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 533007-Bastrop | TX | TEX-735 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Altec Manufacturing, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR PreZero US Packaging, LLC. 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Air Heater Seal Company Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Biorge Construction 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stuttgart Soy Terminal 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gezolan(KRAIBURG)LP 27 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.