Grocery Stores · Maine

08438 - Store # 8438 Caribou

Caribou, ME · ~113 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

08438 - Store # 8438 Caribou runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

08438 - Store # 8438 Caribou: 6.1 TCR = 178% of Grocery Stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

08438 - Store # 8438 Caribou safety composite

08438 - Store # 8438 Caribou scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

08438 - Store # 8438 Caribou: 2.8 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.28× in 2023

08438 - Store # 8438 Caribou's TCR rose 6.4 from 2.8 in 2022 to 9.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Caribou, ME ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 178% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #48/205
  • PHOTO CIDRA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CIDRA (0.0 TCR gap)

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08438 - Store # 8438 Caribou in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 08438 - Store # 8438 Caribou averages 6.1 TCR (178% of the Grocery Stores BLS benchmark).

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

08438 - Store # 8438 Caribou TCR series: 2022=2.8 · 2023=9.3 · BLS 3.4

Where 08438 - Store # 8438 Caribou falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Stores establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #48 safest of 205 Grocery Stores employers in Maine.

08438 - Store # 8438 Caribou (113 employees, TCR 6.1) 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 08438 - Store # 8438 Caribou
08438 - Store # 8438 Caribou (113 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

08438 - Store # 8438 Caribou 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 9.3 7.7 6 0 0
2022 2.8 2.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · ME · Caribou

30,654 Grocery Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 10 employers in Caribou, ME · 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 CIDRA 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Fresh Market 138 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0431 Houston 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grocery Outlet-Oakland 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 5472-000003551 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seaport Village Skilled Nursing Center 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshall Health Care 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Somic America Inc. 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR Emerald Valley Ranches 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elderly Nursing and Skilled Care 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8438 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR Soderberg Company, Inc. 55 FTE
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 102581 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Whitewater 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR MD 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Concrete Co, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Giant 330 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100497 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100897 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Super Stop and Shop #2545 113 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.