Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers · North Carolina

The Fresh Market 188

Nags Head, NC · ~53 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Fresh Market 188 runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers workplace, earning a grade D.

The Fresh Market 188: 4.9 TCR = 145% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Fresh Market 188 safety composite

The Fresh Market 188 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

The Fresh Market 188: 7.1 → 9.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2024

The Fresh Market 188's TCR rose 2.7 from 7.1 in 2016 to 9.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Nags Head, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 145% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #1330/1627
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 006
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 006 (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Fresh Market 188 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Fresh Market 188 averages 4.9 TCR (145% of the Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers BLS benchmark).

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

The Fresh Market 188 TCR series: 2016=7.1 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=2.7 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=0 · 2024=9.8 · BLS 3.4

Where The Fresh Market 188 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 46% 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 #1330 safest of 1627 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in North Carolina.

The Fresh Market 188 (53 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 The Fresh Market 188
The Fresh Market 188 (53 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

The Fresh Market 188 has fewer employees than the Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers 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 9.8 2.4 4 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 7.7 0.0 3 0 0
2021 5.1 5.1 2 0 0
2019 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2018 4.7 4.7 2 0 0
2017 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2016 7.1 7.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NC · Nags Head

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 12 employers in Nags Head, 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 006 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Fresh Market 039 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MT. READ 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0529 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sanderson Farms St. Pauls Hatchery 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE CPI USA NC LLC - Southport 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goldsboro Resource Center - PNG 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Master Telecommunications 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Outer Banks Health Hospital 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Outer Banks Hospital 400 FTE
CITY-NEAR 02503 - STORE # 2503 NAGS HEAD 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2503 82 FTE
NAT-TCR The Fresh Market 039 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Fresh Market 006 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Chilton Dairy, LLC 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR FVWP 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Milk Specialties Global Norfolk 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marathon Courtyard 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grant Town Power Plant 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midstate Steel, Inc. 53 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, 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.