General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Souto Foods LLC

Hickory, NC · ~73 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Souto Foods LLC runs at 405% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Souto Foods LLC: 8.9 TCR = 405% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Souto Foods LLC safety composite

Souto Foods LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Souto Foods LLC: 5.4 → 11.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 13.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2023

Souto Foods LLC's TCR rose 5.6 from 5.4 in 2019 to 11.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Hickory, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 405% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #47/54
  • PHOTO The SYGMA Network
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The SYGMA Network (0.0 TCR gap)

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Souto Foods LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Souto Foods LLC averages 8.9 TCR (405% of the General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Souto Foods LLC TCR series: 2019=5.4 · 2020=10.1 · 2021=13.2 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=11 · BLS 2.2

Where Souto Foods LLC falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #47 safest of 54 General-line groceries merchan employers in North Carolina.

Souto Foods LLC (73 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Souto Foods LLC
Souto Foods LLC (73 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Souto Foods LLC has fewer employees than the General-line groceries merchant wholesal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2023 11.0 7.8 7 0 0
2022 4.9 4.9 3 0 0
2021 13.2 13.2 11 0 0
2020 10.1 10.1 5 0 0
2019 5.4 5.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · NC · Hickory

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 240 employers in Hickory, NC · 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 The SYGMA Network 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Feesers Inc 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seattle Branch 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TN-JACKS01 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tri-State Turf of NC 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE REC 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Haywood EMC-Combined Districts 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Utilities 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Catawba Valley Medical Center 2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merchants Distributors LLC 1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frye Regional Medical Center 1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center 1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4699 Alhambra, CA 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Carnegie 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Bridge at Alamosa 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Food 4 Less - Mack Road 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Social Circle 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mooringss Park at Grey Oaks 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sterling Oaks Rehabilitation 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of Osawatomie 73 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.