Kitchenware stores · North Carolina

Kitchen & Company- Store 4

Asheville, NC · ~18 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kitchen & Company- Store 4 runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Kitchenware stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Kitchen & Company- Store 4: 3.5 TCR = 102% of Kitchenware stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kitchen & Company- Store 4 safety composite

Kitchen & Company- Store 4 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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%).

Kitchen & Company- Store 4 held a steady TCR band

Kitchen & Company- Store 4's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=10.4 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 442299 · Asheville, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 102% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #20/65
  • PHOTO West Hollywood #052
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Hollywood #052 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kitchen & Company- Store 4 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kitchen & Company- Store 4 averages 3.5 TCR (102% of the Kitchenware stores BLS benchmark).

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

Kitchen & Company- Store 4 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=10.4 · 2018=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Kitchen & Company- Store 4 falls in its industry

2,162 Kitchenware stores establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 65 Kitchenware stores employers in North Carolina.

Kitchen & Company- Store 4 (18 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kitchen & Company- Store 4
Kitchen & Company- Store 4 (18 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Kitchen & Company- Store 4 has fewer employees than the Kitchenware stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 10.4 10.4 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

442299 · NC · Asheville

2,162 Kitchenware stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 290 employers in Asheville, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR West Hollywood #052 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Avon 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Signal Butte Mesa 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cost Plus World Market CAMELBACK 6055 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pikeville 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sweet Potato Packing House 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laurinburg 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Leggett 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mission Hospital; MH Hospital Manager, LLC 8,097 FTE
CITY-NEAR Biltmore Workforce Management 1,894 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mission Medical Associates 1,336 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Care Partners 1,018 FTE
NAT-TCR Plover #107 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Takoma Regional Hospital 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5197 Elizabeth, NJ 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Northwest Community Healthcare Medical Group at 1051 3.5 TCR

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: 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.