Grocery stores · South Carolina

KJ's Market #639

Chester, SC · ~60 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 #639 runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade C.

KJ's Market #639: 2.9 TCR = 86% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KJ's Market #639 safety composite

KJ's Market #639 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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 #639: 0.0 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.83× in 2024

KJ's Market #639's TCR rose 8.3 from 0.0 in 2021 to 8.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 86% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #271/789
  • PHOTO Store #24
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store #24 (0.0 TCR gap)

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KJ's Market #639 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KJ's Market #639 averages 2.9 TCR (86% 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 #639 TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=8.3 · BLS 3.4

Where KJ's Market #639 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 77% 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 #271 safest of 789 Grocery stores employers in South Carolina.

KJ's Market #639 (60 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 #639
KJ's Market #639 (60 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 #639 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 8.3 8.3 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · SC · Chester

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 28 employers in Chester, 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 Store #24 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CORNER MARKET #6055 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Redner's Warehouse Market Boyertown 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vincennes Save-A-Lot 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main office 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charleston LEC, Inc. 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Poseidon Advanced Materials 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Forest Products Inc. 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carolina Poly 484 FTE
CITY-NEAR MUSC Health Chester Medical Center 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chester Plywood - WP 324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boral Stone Chester 291 FTE
NAT-TCR Vortex Colorado SHO 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Amatrol, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 2501 - Shreveport, LA 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0598 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE KJ's Market #613 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hands On Children's Museum 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fareway Stores, Inc. 950 Iowa City 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE TSS 60 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.