Grocery stores · South Carolina

kj's market lake city

Lake City, SC · ~120 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

kj's market lake city runs at 186% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

kj's market lake city: 6.3 TCR = 186% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

kj's market lake city safety composite

kj's market lake city scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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)
F 6.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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 lake city: 6.1 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.43× in 2019

kj's market lake city's TCR rose 0.7 from 6.1 in 2016 to 6.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Lake City, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 186% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #672/789
  • PHOTO Menomonee Falls 39
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Menomonee Falls 39 (0.0 TCR gap)

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kj's market lake city in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows kj's market lake city averages 6.3 TCR (186% 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 lake city TCR series: 2016=6.1 · 2017=3.7 · 2018=8.7 · 2019=6.8 · BLS 3.4

Where kj's market lake city falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 31% 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 #672 safest of 789 Grocery stores employers in South Carolina.

kj's market lake city (120 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 lake city
kj's market lake city (120 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

kj's market lake city has more employees than the Grocery stores median and a higher 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
2019 6.8 2.7 5 0 0
2018 8.7 2.9 6 0 0
2017 3.7 1.2 3 0 0
2016 6.1 1.5 4 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 Menomonee Falls 39 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0343 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0368 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABS-0029-0028-00331 FAC-00331-RIDGECREST-CA 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE W.O. Blackstone & Co., Inc. 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Concrete Cutting & Coring, LLC 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milliken & Company- Enterprise 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Integrated Turf Solutions 120 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 6962-Swy 0029 2364 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 40228-Capstone Supervalu Mechanicsvile Va 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR NGTS-D352 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ltia Hou 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Elevate Cleans 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6962-Swy 0029 2665 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6962-Swy 0025 3095 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6962-Swy 0025 1266 120 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.