Variety stores · Connecticut

326 Waterbury CT

Waterbury, CT · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

326 Waterbury CT runs at 416% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Variety stores workplace, earning a grade F.

326 Waterbury CT: 14.1 TCR = 416% of Variety stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

326 Waterbury CT safety composite

326 Waterbury CT scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

326 Waterbury CT: 11.5 → 16.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 16.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2017

326 Waterbury CT's TCR rose 5.3 from 11.5 in 2016 to 16.8 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Waterbury, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.1 · 416% of ind

  • DART 11.2 DART
  • RANK #53/58
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #4520…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #4520 Barre, VT (0.0 TCR gap)

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326 Waterbury CT in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 326 Waterbury CT averages 14.1 TCR (416% of the Variety stores BLS benchmark).

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

326 Waterbury CT TCR series: 2016=11.5 · 2017=16.8 · BLS 3.4

Where 326 Waterbury CT falls in its industry

2,120 Variety stores establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #53 safest of 58 Variety stores employers in Connecticut.

326 Waterbury CT (49 employees, TCR 14.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 326 Waterbury CT
326 Waterbury CT (49 employees, TCR 14.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

326 Waterbury CT has more employees than the Variety stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2017 16.8 11.2 3 0 0
2016 11.5 11.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · CT · Waterbury

2,120 Variety stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 218 employers in Waterbury, CT · 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 Big Lots Store #4520 Barre, VT 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 401 Peterboro NH 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 226 Fairhaven MA 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black Fridays Daily Discount Store-Dyer 14.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Caldwell & Walsh Building Construction, Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Highways/Roads - Operations 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Highways & Bridges 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Mary's Hospital 1,654 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waterbury Hospital 1,472 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hartford-Saint Mary's Hospital 1,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Naugatuck Valley Community College 1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR TCA 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sweetwater Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Plant 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wyckoff Heating & Cooling 14.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE AAA Worldwide Transportation 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village of Elk Rapids 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE AKA Tree Removal 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Mansfield LLC 49 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: 2017, 2016. 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.