Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores · Alabama

Hometown Market of Limestone County, Inc.

Athens, AL · ~53 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hometown Market of Limestone County, Inc. runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Hometown Market of Limestone County, Inc.: 3.3 TCR = 96% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hometown Market of Limestone County, Inc. safety composite

Hometown Market of Limestone County, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% 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).

C

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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

Hometown Market of Limestone County, Inc.: 0.0 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Hometown Market of Limestone County, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Athens, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 96% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #168/382
  • PHOTO Store #40
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store #40 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hometown Market of Limestone County, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hometown Market of Limestone County, Inc. averages 3.3 TCR (96% of the Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Hometown Market of Limestone County, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=8.1 · 2020=2.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Hometown Market of Limestone County, Inc. falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #168 safest of 382 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in Alabama.

Hometown Market of Limestone County, Inc. (53 employees, TCR 3.3) 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 Hometown Market of Limestone County, Inc.
Hometown Market of Limestone County, Inc. (53 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Hometown Market of Limestone County, Inc. has fewer employees than the Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except C 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
2020 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2018 8.1 0.0 3 0 0
2017 2.7 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · AL · Athens

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 57 employers in Athens, AL · 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 Store #40 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Redner's Warehouse Market Whitehall 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lowes Foods #188 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rocklin Grocery Outlet 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shoreline Growers 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ambassador Sanitation Management @ Wayne Farms Decatur 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Franklin 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Birmingham Division Patton Chapel 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steelcase - Athens 757 FTE
CITY-NEAR Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 661 428 FTE
CITY-NEAR 661 382 FTE
NAT-TCR Condor Fireplace and Stone 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ITW Shakeproof Group - Watertown, WI 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Jacksonville (BP) 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR V3 Companies - Woodridge 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE PPDC 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wallace International Trucks Inc 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Capitol City Container Corp 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Streator,IL 53 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: 2020, 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.