Grocery Stores · Vermont

08353 - Store # 8353 Essex

Essex Junction, VT · ~198 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

08353 - Store # 8353 Essex runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

08353 - Store # 8353 Essex: 5.8 TCR = 169% of Grocery Stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

08353 - Store # 8353 Essex safety composite

08353 - Store # 8353 Essex scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

08353 - Store # 8353 Essex: 4.9 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2023

08353 - Store # 8353 Essex's TCR rose 1.8 from 4.9 in 2022 to 6.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Essex Junction, VT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 169% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #68/135
  • PHOTO Reynolds Market-Glen…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~198 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Reynolds Market-Glendive (0.0 TCR gap)

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08353 - Store # 8353 Essex in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 08353 - Store # 8353 Essex averages 5.8 TCR (169% of the Grocery Stores BLS benchmark).

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

08353 - Store # 8353 Essex TCR series: 2022=4.9 · 2023=6.6 · BLS 3.4

Where 08353 - Store # 8353 Essex falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Stores establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Vermont alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #68 safest of 135 Grocery Stores employers in Vermont.

08353 - Store # 8353 Essex (198 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 08353 - Store # 8353 Essex
08353 - Store # 8353 Essex (198 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

08353 - Store # 8353 Essex 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 6.6 3.8 7 0 0
2022 4.9 3.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · VT · Essex Junction

30,654 Grocery Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 31 employers in Essex Junction, VT · 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 Reynolds Market-Glendive 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chatsworth Grocery Outlet 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 026-00686 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 531-00531 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2332 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vermont Permanency Initiative 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbia Forest Products - Newport, VT 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kaman Composites - Vermont 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR GLOBALFOUNDRIES Burlington 2,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR GlobalFoundries - Burlington 1,821 FTE
CITY-NEAR VT - Essex - 30 Gauthier Dr - Keurig Green Mountain Inc 436 FTE
CITY-NEAR PLB 366 FTE
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100435 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ihop 3040 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Hotel Hershey 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lynden Agronomy/LP 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100003 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE Senior Star at Elmore Place 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Conservatory Theater 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mersen USA GS Corp - Bay City 198 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.