Grocery stores · South Carolina

kj's market chester

Name: kj's market chester Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Chester, SC · ~62 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

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

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The verdict

kj's market chester runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

kj's market chester: 4.5 TCR = 134% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

kj's market chester safety composite

kj's market chester 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).

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 4.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.1

2016→2019

kj's market chester injury rate improved

kj's market chester's TCR fell 2.1 from 5.7 in 2016 to 3.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.7 · 2017=5.6 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Chester, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 134% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #529/789
PHOTO Monongahela Foodland
BOOK 4y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Monongahela Foodland (0.0 TCR gap)

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4.5
Monongahela Fo

4.5
Store 0328

4.5
Store 0779

4.5
Store 1080

4.5

What this shows kj's market chester averages 4.5 TCR (134% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

kj's market chester TCR series: 2016=5.7 · 2017=5.6 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=3.6 · BLS 3.4

Where kj's market chester falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #529 safest of 789 Grocery stores employers in South Carolina.

kj's market chester (62 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 chester 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
2019	3.6	0.0	1
2018	3.4	0.0	1
2017	5.6	0.0	2
2016	5.7	5.7	2

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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Monongahela Foodland	MONONGAHELA, PA	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Store 0328	CUTLER BAY, FL	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Store 0779	PALM BAY, FL	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Store 1080	THE VILLAGES, FL	4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Contract Construction inc.	IRMO	62 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Three Oaks Contractors Inc.	RAVENEL	62 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Chandler Construction Services, Inc.	NINETY SIX	62 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mount Valley Greenville	SPARTANBURG	62 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Carolina Poly	Chester	484 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MUSC Health Chester Medical Center	Chester	344 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Chester Plywood - WP	Chester	324 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Boral Stone Chester	Chester	291 FTE
NAT-TCR	Commercial Works Louisville	Louisville, KY	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Cardinal CG - Moreno Valley CG	Moreno Valley, CA	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Merit Electric, Inc. - Fort Collins	Fort Collins, CO	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	6962-Swy 0029 2101	Montecito, CA	4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Haltom City	Haltom City, TX	62 FTE
NAT-SIZE	6400-Swy 0005 0631	Vail, CO	62 FTE
NAT-SIZE	6962-Swy 0025 3008	Pacifica, CA	62 FTE
NAT-SIZE	6962-Swy 0025 0928	Pleasant Hill, CA	62 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.