Grocery stores · South Carolina

KJ's Market #629

Lake City, SC · ~90 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KJ's Market #629 runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade C.

KJ's Market #629: 2.9 TCR = 85% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KJ's Market #629 safety composite

KJ's Market #629 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

KJ's Market #629: 1.5 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.65× in 2024

KJ's Market #629's TCR rose 5.6 from 1.5 in 2021 to 7.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Lake City, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 85% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #258/789
  • PHOTO Giant Eagle #4093
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Giant Eagle #4093 (0.0 TCR gap)

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KJ's Market #629 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KJ's Market #629 averages 2.9 TCR (85% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

KJ's Market #629 TCR series: 2021=1.5 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=7.1 · BLS 3.4

Where KJ's Market #629 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #258 safest of 789 Grocery stores employers in South Carolina.

KJ's Market #629 (90 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 KJ's Market #629
KJ's Market #629 (90 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

KJ's Market #629 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 7.1 4.8 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2021 1.5 1.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · SC · Lake City

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 14 employers in Lake City, SC · 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 #4093 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Supermercado La Chiquita West Chicago 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 131-SUNDOWN 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0024 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE WATEREE STEAM PLANT 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corley Service Corporation 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holy City Brewing, LLC 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nephron Nitrile, LLC 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nan Ya Plastics Corporation, America 882 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake City Community Hospital 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 621 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR 621 268 FTE
NAT-TCR El Paso Texas Don Haskins Crossdock 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 131-SUNDOWN 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 8018174 - 1903 Terminal Lobby and IAF 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Vintage Park of Baldwin City 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE AGT Foods - Minot 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fareway Stores, Inc. 949 Marion 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fareway Stores, Inc. 657 Indianola 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE National Distribution Centers LLC-951 AVIATION PARKWAY 90 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, 2021. 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.