Supermarkets and Other Grocery except Convenience Stores · North Carolina

Store 137

Arden, NC · ~142 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Store 137 runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery except Convenience Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Store 137: 4.1 TCR = 121% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery except Convenience Stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Store 137 safety composite

Store 137 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−2.7

2021→2024

Store 137 injury rate improved

Store 137's TCR fell 2.7 from 5.5 in 2021 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=5.5 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Arden, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 121% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #1170/1627
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 235
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~142 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 235 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Store 137 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Store 137 averages 4.1 TCR (121% of the Supermarkets and Other Grocery except Convenience Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Store 137 TCR series: 2021=5.5 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Store 137 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1170 safest of 1627 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in North Carolina.

Store 137 (142 employees, TCR 4.1) 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 Store 137
Store 137 (142 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Store 137 has more employees than the Supermarkets and Other Grocery except C 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 2.8 0.9 3 0 0
2023 3.9 2.0 4 0 0
2022 4.2 2.1 4 0 0
2021 5.5 4.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Arden

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery except Convenience Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 77 employers in Arden, 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 Fresh Market 235 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR RPCS Inc. dba King Food Saver # 24 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0027 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0284 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shelco, LLC 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Delta Contracting Inc. 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burford Construction North Carolina Statewide Operations 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Parton Lumber Company 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASHEVILLE NC 997 FTE
CITY-NEAR DUKE-ASHEVILLE 847 FTE
CITY-NEAR BorgWarner Asheville 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jabil Healthcare Asheville 566 FTE
NAT-TCR Centegra Hospital Woodstock 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR M001 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR NutraStar 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Inland Air Balance Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store 201 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gan Kavod Inc 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE USF Fabrication, Inc. 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Butterball Farms, Inc. 142 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.