Grocery Stores · Virginia

00837 - Store # 837 Emporia

Emporia, VA · ~83 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

00837 - Store # 837 Emporia runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

00837 - Store # 837 Emporia: 4.6 TCR = 134% of Grocery Stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

00837 - Store # 837 Emporia safety composite

00837 - Store # 837 Emporia scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

00837 - Store # 837 Emporia: 2.1 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2023

00837 - Store # 837 Emporia's TCR rose 4.8 from 2.1 in 2022 to 7.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Emporia, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 134% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #914/1241
  • PHOTO Superior Grocers 122
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Superior Grocers 122 (0.0 TCR gap)

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00837 - Store # 837 Emporia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 00837 - Store # 837 Emporia averages 4.6 TCR (134% of the Grocery Stores BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

00837 - Store # 837 Emporia TCR series: 2022=2.1 · 2023=7 · BLS 3.4

Where 00837 - Store # 837 Emporia falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Stores establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #914 safest of 1241 Grocery Stores employers in Virginia.

00837 - Store # 837 Emporia (83 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 00837 - Store # 837 Emporia
00837 - Store # 837 Emporia (83 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

00837 - Store # 837 Emporia has fewer employees than the Grocery Stores 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
2023 7.0 2.3 3 0 0
2022 2.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · VA · Emporia

30,654 Grocery Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 28 employers in Emporia, VA · 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 Superior Grocers 122 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY 0025 1560 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY 0029 2071 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10146 Pikes Peak 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Broad Bay Country Club 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Salem Frame 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE 211N - Enterprise Leasing Co of Norfolk/ Richmond, LLC 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Martha Jefferson House 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR VA010 Emporia Plywood 476 FTE
CITY-NEAR Power Emporia Plant 476 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2805 187 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2805 183 FTE
NAT-TCR Fremont - F316 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100570 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Irvine Pharmacy 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ihop 1509 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop Store 2404 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation Headquarters and Districts 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eagle Rock Distributing Co. - Calhoun 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shearer Richardson Memorial Nursing Home 83 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.