Retail grocery not including convenience stores · West Virginia

029-00273

Bluewell, WV · ~71 workers · 3 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

029-00273 runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail grocery not including convenience stores workplace, earning a grade D.

029-00273: 4.7 TCR = 138% of Retail grocery not including convenience stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

029-00273 safety composite

029-00273 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

029-00273: 5.1 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2018

029-00273's TCR rose 3.8 from 5.1 in 2016 to 8.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Bluewell, WV ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 138% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #82/114
  • PHOTO Store #50
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store #50 (0.0 TCR gap)

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029-00273 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 029-00273 averages 4.7 TCR (138% of the Retail grocery not including convenience stores BLS benchmark).

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

029-00273 TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=0 · 2018=8.9 · BLS 3.4

Where 029-00273 falls in its industry

30,654 Retail grocery not including c establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #82 safest of 114 Retail grocery not including c employers in West Virginia.

029-00273 (71 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 029-00273
029-00273 (71 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

029-00273 has fewer employees than the Retail grocery not including convenience 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
2018 8.9 3.6 5 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 5.1 5.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · WV · Bluewell

30,654 Retail grocery not including convenience stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 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 Store #50 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Price Rite Store 248 South Ave 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Price Rite Store 310 South Bridge Worcester 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gristedes #59 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hope Gas-Jane Lew Operational Hub 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE SDR Plastics 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mouldagraph Corporation - Nitro, WV 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valtronics Solutions Inc. 71 FTE
NAT-TCR Howell Munitions & Technology, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Academy - Epping 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ardagh Glass Inc Lincoln 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Moen of Pennsylvania 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE KCP&L - St. Joseph Service Center 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE WbW Steamboat Springs 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE W Newell Warehouse 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pecan Tree Rehab and Healthcare Center 71 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.