Grocery stores · Georgia

KJ's Market #649

Hephzibah, GA · ~65 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KJ's Market #649 runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

KJ's Market #649: 4.5 TCR = 133% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KJ's Market #649 safety composite

KJ's Market #649 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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 #649: 4.3 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.23× in 2024

KJ's Market #649's TCR rose 4.0 from 4.3 in 2021 to 8.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Hephzibah, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 133% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #587/836
  • PHOTO Lowes Foods #216
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lowes Foods #216 (0.0 TCR gap)

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KJ's Market #649 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KJ's Market #649 averages 4.5 TCR (133% 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 #649 TCR series: 2021=4.3 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=8.3 · BLS 3.4

Where KJ's Market #649 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #587 safest of 836 Grocery stores employers in Georgia.

KJ's Market #649 (65 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 #649
KJ's Market #649 (65 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

KJ's Market #649 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 5.5 3 0 0
2023 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 2.9 0.0 1 0 0
2021 4.3 2.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · GA · Hephzibah

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 8 employers in Hephzibah, GA · 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 Lowes Foods #216 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shop Rite of Union 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0353 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0518 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Columbia Farms of GA 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services - Lake City, FL 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Peanut Ingredients, LLC 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE C & E INVESTORS & CONSTRUCTION LLC 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2465 148 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2465 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR kj's market hephzibah 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR KJ's Market #613 60 FTE
NAT-TCR Pencco, Inc. - Bardwell 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0353 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0518 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0627 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Avon Pointe Family Hlth Ctr 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE KJ's Market #621 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE buhler & Bitter Inc 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE NRC NY Environmental Services - Albany 65 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.