Grocery Stores · Massachusetts

08327 - Store # 8327 Lowell

Lowell, MA · ~145 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

08327 - Store # 8327 Lowell runs at 234% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

08327 - Store # 8327 Lowell: 8.0 TCR = 234% of Grocery Stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

08327 - Store # 8327 Lowell safety composite

08327 - Store # 8327 Lowell scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

08327 - Store # 8327 Lowell: 6.8 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2023

08327 - Store # 8327 Lowell's TCR rose 2.3 from 6.8 in 2022 to 9.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Lowell, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 234% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #689/842
  • PHOTO Washington Shop 'n S…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~145 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Washington Shop 'n Save (0.0 TCR gap)

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08327 - Store # 8327 Lowell in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 08327 - Store # 8327 Lowell averages 8.0 TCR (234% of the Grocery Stores BLS benchmark).

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

08327 - Store # 8327 Lowell TCR series: 2022=6.8 · 2023=9.1 · BLS 3.4

Where 08327 - Store # 8327 Lowell falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Stores establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #689 safest of 842 Grocery Stores employers in Massachusetts.

08327 - Store # 8327 Lowell (145 employees, TCR 8.0) 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 08327 - Store # 8327 Lowell
08327 - Store # 8327 Lowell (145 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

08327 - Store # 8327 Lowell 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
2023 9.1 3.9 7 0 0
2022 6.8 4.1 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MA · Lowell

30,654 Grocery Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 81 employers in Lowell, MA · 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 Washington Shop 'n Save 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0044 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWY-0005-0005-02839 FAC-02839-COLORADO SPRINGS-CO 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWY-0017-0017-00236 FAC-00236-SUN CITY-AZ 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Insa Easthampton 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gladding Hearn Shipbuilding 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allen Medical Systems, Inc. 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2679 SOUTH BAYBOSTON 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowell General Hospital 2,314 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pathfinder 1,082 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowell General Hospital Saints 741 FTE
CITY-NEAR Macom Technology Solutions 507 FTE
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 0710 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rosewood on Broadway 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR B&J, Inc 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Willows Landing Senior Living 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100684 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100687 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Super Stop & Shop 2805 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pleasants LLC 145 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.

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

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