Variety stores · Maine

473 Sanford ME

Sanford, ME · ~46 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

473 Sanford ME runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Variety stores workplace, earning a grade D.

473 Sanford ME: 5.4 TCR = 158% of Variety stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

473 Sanford ME safety composite

473 Sanford ME scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

473 Sanford ME: 0.0 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2017

473 Sanford ME's TCR rose 10.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 10.8 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Sanford, ME ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 158% of ind

  • DART 10.8 DART
  • RANK #7/13
  • PHOTO 2490
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2490 (0.0 TCR gap)

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473 Sanford ME in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 473 Sanford ME averages 5.4 TCR (158% of the Variety stores BLS benchmark).

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

473 Sanford ME TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=10.8 · BLS 3.4

Where 473 Sanford ME falls in its industry

2,120 Variety stores establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 13 Variety stores employers in Maine.

473 Sanford ME (46 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 473 Sanford ME
473 Sanford ME (46 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

473 Sanford ME 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 10.8 10.8 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · ME · Sanford

2,120 Variety stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 38 employers in Sanford, 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 2490 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2170 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4473 OILDALE, CA 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Runnings of Baker 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE HVAC Services INC 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Limington Lumber Company 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE GO Lab Madison 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Altium Packaging - Poland Plant 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1954 330 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanford Hospital 268 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1954 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08390 - Store # 8390 Sanford 168 FTE
NAT-TCR TriMet Ruby Junction Operations Facility 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Scranton (Pascr) 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mooresville Center 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage House 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Paul Jackson and Son, Inc. 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE TR Construction 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Waters of Minocqua 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Express and Suites Madison - Verona 46 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.