Supermarkets · Hawaii

KTA Super Stores - Puainako

Hilo, HI · ~220 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KTA Super Stores - Puainako runs at 195% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade D.

KTA Super Stores - Puainako: 6.6 TCR = 195% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KTA Super Stores - Puainako safety composite

KTA Super Stores - Puainako scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

KTA Super Stores - Puainako: 4.8 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.18× in 2024

KTA Super Stores - Puainako's TCR rose 3.6 from 4.8 in 2022 to 8.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Hilo, HI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 195% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #119/147
  • PHOTO Libertyville Sunset …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~220 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Libertyville Sunset Food Mart, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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KTA Super Stores - Puainako in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KTA Super Stores - Puainako averages 6.6 TCR (195% of the Supermarkets BLS benchmark).

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

KTA Super Stores - Puainako TCR series: 2022=4.8 · 2023=6.6 · 2024=8.4 · BLS 3.4

Where KTA Super Stores - Puainako falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Hawaii alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #119 safest of 147 Supermarkets employers in Hawaii.

KTA Super Stores - Puainako (220 employees, TCR 6.6) 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 KTA Super Stores - Puainako
KTA Super Stores - Puainako (220 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

KTA Super Stores - Puainako has more employees than the Supermarkets 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
2024 8.4 7.8 14 0 0
2023 6.6 4.2 11 0 0
2022 4.8 4.8 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · HI · Hilo

30,654 Supermarkets employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,022 rated employers in Hawaii with headcount on file · 88 employers in Hilo, HI · 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 Libertyville Sunset Food Mart, Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ben's Supercenter Marlette LLC South 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 026-00542 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 704-00309 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shioi Construction Inc dba Creative Partition Systems 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE 58391 THE MODERN HVC 218 FTE
STATE-SIZE Azul Hawaii Resorts - Koloa, LLC 218 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10363 Kahala Mall Oahu 217 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilo Medical Center 1,389 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hawaii Police Department 666 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2473 505 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2682 - Hawaii-Hilo 453 FTE
NAT-TCR K-Way Express, Inc 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Landis Homes 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Melbourne Fl 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Iosco Medical Care Facility 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Freeman Corporation 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE GEA Process Engineering Inc. 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE Terraces of Phoenix 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE O-I Streator 220 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. 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.