Supermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores · North Carolina

Store 1521

Gastonia, NC · ~130 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Store 1521 runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Supermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Store 1521: 3.0 TCR = 89% of Supermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Store 1521 safety composite

Store 1521 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

Store 1521 held a steady TCR band

Store 1521's TCR held near 0.0 from 3.1 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.1 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=1.3 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=6.7 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Gastonia, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 89% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #848/1627
  • PHOTO Jackson Food Rite
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~130 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jackson Food Rite (0.0 TCR gap)

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Store 1521 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Store 1521 averages 3.0 TCR (89% 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 1521 TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=1.3 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=6.7 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Store 1521 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and other grocery establishments

Safer than 76% 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 #848 safest of 1627 Supermarkets and other grocery employers in North Carolina.

Store 1521 (130 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 1521
Store 1521 (130 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Store 1521 has more employees than the Supermarkets and other grocery except co 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 3.1 2.1 3 0 0
2023 2.2 1.1 2 0 0
2022 6.7 4.5 6 0 0
2021 2.3 1.1 2 0 0
2020 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2019 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2018 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2017 4.8 3.6 4 0 0
2016 3.1 1.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Gastonia

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 · 182 employers in Gastonia, 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 Jackson Food Rite 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Redner's Warehouse Market Chestertown 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pomona CA 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nature's Food Patch, Inc. Dunedin 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Starr Electric Company, Inc Raleigh 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bonitz Flooring and Contracting Charlotte 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Novo Nordisk Pharmaceutical Industries, LP Oral Finished Products 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE SC Johnson Professional - Corporate office and sales 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center 3,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston County Government 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1312 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Eurostampa North America 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0798 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0786 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store 1531 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1503 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1644 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1328 130 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, 2020, 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.