Variety stores · New York

501 Ballston Spa NY

Ballston Spa, NY · ~78 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

501 Ballston Spa NY runs at 232% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Variety stores workplace, earning a grade F.

501 Ballston Spa NY: 7.9 TCR = 232% of Variety stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

501 Ballston Spa NY safety composite

501 Ballston Spa NY scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

501 Ballston Spa NY: 4.1 → 11.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2017

501 Ballston Spa NY's TCR rose 7.7 from 4.1 in 2016 to 11.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Ballston Spa, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 232% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #93/98
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #5182…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #5182 Simpsonville, S (0.0 TCR gap)

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501 Ballston Spa NY in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 501 Ballston Spa NY averages 7.9 TCR (232% of the Variety stores BLS benchmark).

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

501 Ballston Spa NY TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2017=11.7 · BLS 3.4

Where 501 Ballston Spa NY falls in its industry

2,120 Variety stores establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #93 safest of 98 Variety stores employers in New York.

501 Ballston Spa NY (78 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 501 Ballston Spa NY
501 Ballston Spa NY (78 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

501 Ballston Spa NY 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 11.7 7.8 3 0 0
2016 4.1 4.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · NY · Ballston Spa

2,120 Variety stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 31 employers in Ballston Spa, NY · 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 #5182 Simpsonville, S 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #4525 AUGUSTA, ME 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1550 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roses Express 650 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Key Capture Energy, LLC 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Branch Restoration 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Skanska USA Commercial Development 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE D&H Excavating Inc 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR Curtis Lumber Co. Inc. Ballston Spa 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8394 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR 00-43 Ridge - Corp 176 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08447 - Store # 8447 Ballston Spa 135 FTE
NAT-TCR Taylor (Mitay) 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5182 Simpsonville, S 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ditch Witch Midwest:Carol Stream 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 4795-PD-PHL-PHILADELPHIA-PD 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Willard LLC 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant 779 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE KIK Chicago 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE KP - Frazer CSC 78 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.