Grocery stores · North Carolina

Hills Food Store #3

Lake Waccamaw, NC · ~20 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hills Food Store #3 runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Hills Food Store #3: 2.1 TCR = 63% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hills Food Store #3 safety composite

Hills Food Store #3 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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 #3: 0.0 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Hills Food Store #3's TCR rose 6.4 from 0.0 in 2022 to 6.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Lake Waccamaw, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 63% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #444/1627
  • PHOTO Giant Eagle #4133
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Giant Eagle #4133 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hills Food Store #3 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hills Food Store #3 averages 2.1 TCR (63% 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 #3 TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=6.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Hills Food Store #3 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 89% 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 #444 safest of 1627 Grocery stores employers in North Carolina.

Hills Food Store #3 (20 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 #3
Hills Food Store #3 (20 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Hills Food Store #3 has fewer employees than the Grocery stores median and a lower 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 6.4 0.0 1 0 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 · Lake Waccamaw

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 5 employers in Lake Waccamaw, 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 Giant Eagle #4133 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fifth and Union Market 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2312 MARTINS SUPERMARKET 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 029-FRITCH 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Steve Thomas Farms 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kent Smith Farms 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ron Richmond 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thomas Family Farms, Inc. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boys and Girls Homes of NC 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR Top Tobacco LP 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Council Tool Company Inc. 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hills #3 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Remanco Hydraulics, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wagman Heavy Civil, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR EFCO dba Ajax/CECO/Erie Press 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverchase Golf Club 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE PANG Fire Dept 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Becket House at Lewiston 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parnell & Associates Inc 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 34-IL 20 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.