Grocery Stores · Virginia

01609 - Store # 1609 Newport News

Newport News, VA · ~65 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

01609 - Store # 1609 Newport News runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

01609 - Store # 1609 Newport News: 4.7 TCR = 138% of Grocery Stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

01609 - Store # 1609 Newport News safety composite

01609 - Store # 1609 Newport News scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

01609 - Store # 1609 Newport News: 4.4 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2023

01609 - Store # 1609 Newport News's TCR rose 0.5 from 4.4 in 2022 to 4.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Newport News, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 138% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #932/1241
  • PHOTO Lowes Foods #123
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lowes Foods #123 (0.0 TCR gap)

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01609 - Store # 1609 Newport News in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 01609 - Store # 1609 Newport News averages 4.7 TCR (138% of the Grocery Stores BLS benchmark).

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

01609 - Store # 1609 Newport News TCR series: 2022=4.4 · 2023=4.9 · BLS 3.4

Where 01609 - Store # 1609 Newport News falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Stores establishments

Safer than 50% 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 #932 safest of 1241 Grocery Stores employers in Virginia.

01609 - Store # 1609 Newport News (65 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 01609 - Store # 1609 Newport News
01609 - Store # 1609 Newport News (65 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

01609 - Store # 1609 Newport News has fewer employees than the Grocery Stores 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
2023 4.9 4.9 2 0 0
2022 4.4 4.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · VA · Newport News

30,654 Grocery Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 330 employers in Newport News, 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 Lowes Foods #123 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Grocers 104 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10027 Los Gatos 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 011-00376 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE POSSUM PT PW ST 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE BLUE RIDGE 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works-Wastewater 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gilbane Building Company Richmond 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries 24,543 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Regional Medical Center 2,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Regional Medical Center-113 1,680 FTE
CITY-NEAR 12490 Jefferson Ave 1,503 FTE
NAT-TCR Beavertown Block Co. Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Quikrete - Bna 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Calva Purina Milk Replacer Feed Mill 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Norcold Gettysburg 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Super Stop & Shop Store 102810 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Power Technology Inc 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Calumet 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE CCS Cleaning Services Inc. 65 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.