Grocery stores · Ohio

03 - Ashland

Ashland, OH · ~119 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

03 - Ashland runs at 150% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

03 - Ashland: 5.1 TCR = 150% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

03 - Ashland safety composite

03 - Ashland scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

03 - Ashland: 5.1 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2024

03 - Ashland's TCR rose 1.2 from 5.1 in 2022 to 6.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Ashland, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 150% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #586/748
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 132
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 132 (0.0 TCR gap)

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03 - Ashland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 03 - Ashland averages 5.1 TCR (150% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

03 - Ashland TCR series: 2022=5.1 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 3.4

Where 03 - Ashland falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #586 safest of 748 Grocery stores employers in Ohio.

03 - Ashland (119 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 03 - Ashland
03 - Ashland (119 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

03 - Ashland has more 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
2024 6.3 3.2 4 0 0
2023 3.8 2.6 3 0 0
2022 5.1 3.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · OH · Ashland

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 68 employers in Ashland, OH · 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 132 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Price Rite Store 238 Cheektowaga 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 106JOL 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1470 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lake Erie Construction Co. 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE US162: Cleveland 515 - SG 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Agrana Fruit US, Inc. Botkins 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Millwork Brands Inc 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ashland University 2,668 FTE
CITY-NEAR Samaritan Medical Center 678 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1448 421 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1448 368 FTE
NAT-TCR St. Louis #702 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Galeon 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Neogen Corporation N Hosmer 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Frank Brunckhorst Co., LLC 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mid-States Distributing Lee's Summit Distribution Center 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Family Tree Service, Inc. 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE All American Commercial Roofing Inc. dba All American Exterior Solutions 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3411 - Manhattan SoHo 119 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.