Supermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores · North Carolina

Store 1544

Apex, NC · ~160 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Store 1544 runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Store 1544: 4.2 TCR = 124% of Supermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Store 1544 safety composite

Store 1544 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 4.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.88 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

−3.2

2017→2024

Store 1544 injury rate improved

Store 1544's TCR fell 3.2 from 5.9 in 2017 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.9 · 2018=8.3 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 124% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #1193/1627
  • PHOTO Lowes Foods #270
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~160 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lowes Foods #270 (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · North Carolina employers → · Look up another →

Store 1544 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Store 1544 averages 4.2 TCR (124% 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 1544 TCR series: 2017=5.9 · 2018=8.3 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Store 1544 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and other grocery establishments

Safer than 57% 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 #1193 safest of 1627 Supermarkets and other grocery employers in North Carolina.

Store 1544 (160 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 1544
Store 1544 (160 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Store 1544 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 2.6 0.9 3 0 0
2023 2.6 1.8 3 0 0
2022 3.7 3.7 4 0 0
2021 3.7 2.8 4 0 0
2020 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2019 4.9 1.0 5 0 0
2018 8.3 4.2 8 0 0
2017 5.9 3.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Apex

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 · 92 employers in Apex, 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 Lowes Foods #270 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Murphy's Markets Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1093 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rouses Market #79 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE US Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers Inc. 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Wiper Alliance a business of Ecolab 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE 550- Burlington Finishing Plant 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA Mt Gilead 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Apex Tool Group - Apex Operation 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR Apex Tool Group - Apex Operations 445 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crowder Construction Company - Civil & Environmental Division 361 FTE
CITY-NEAR Donley's Concrete Group LLC 321 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1372 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Waverly Truss - 1140 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1039 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0885 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store 1511 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1499 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1616 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1458 160 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.