Grocery Stores · Maine

08439 - Store # 8439 Houlton

Houlton, ME · ~105 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

08439 - Store # 8439 Houlton runs at 336% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

08439 - Store # 8439 Houlton: 11.4 TCR = 336% of Grocery Stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

08439 - Store # 8439 Houlton safety composite

08439 - Store # 8439 Houlton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

08439 - Store # 8439 Houlton: 10.8 → 12.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 12.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2023

08439 - Store # 8439 Houlton's TCR rose 1.2 from 10.8 in 2022 to 12.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 11.4 · 336% of ind

  • DART 10.3 DART
  • RANK #159/205
  • PHOTO Lassens Bakersfield
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~105 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lassens Bakersfield (0.0 TCR gap)

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08439 - Store # 8439 Houlton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 08439 - Store # 8439 Houlton averages 11.4 TCR (336% of the Grocery Stores BLS benchmark).

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

08439 - Store # 8439 Houlton TCR series: 2022=10.8 · 2023=12 · BLS 3.4

Where 08439 - Store # 8439 Houlton falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Stores establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #159 safest of 205 Grocery Stores employers in Maine.

08439 - Store # 8439 Houlton (105 employees, TCR 11.4) 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 08439 - Store # 8439 Houlton
08439 - Store # 8439 Houlton (105 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

08439 - Store # 8439 Houlton 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 12.0 10.3 7 0 0
2022 10.8 9.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · ME · Houlton

30,654 Grocery Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 25 employers in Houlton, 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 Lassens Bakersfield 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWY-0025-0025-01224 FAC-01224-NEWARK-CA 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-02286 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2050-20500002-337 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dover-Foxcroft 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5472-000000623 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE 198 - Bangor 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lincolnhealth/St Andrews Village 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR Madigan Estates 187 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1974 148 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smith & Wesson Houlton, ME Site A 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Day & Ross- Maine 95 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Bend Fire 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Guerdon, LLC 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0234 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR HG845 11.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100021 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100057 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100091 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Compassionate Community Care 105 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.

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