Grocery stores · Ohio

Apples (Sheffield Lake)

Sheffield Lake, OH · ~64 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Apples (Sheffield Lake) runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Apples (Sheffield Lake): 4.9 TCR = 144% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Apples (Sheffield Lake) safety composite

Apples (Sheffield Lake) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.3

2016→2024

Apples (Sheffield Lake) injury rate improved

Apples (Sheffield Lake)'s TCR fell 1.3 from 4.2 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.2 · 2017=7.1 · 2018=9.3 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Sheffield Lake, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 144% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #578/748
  • PHOTO FoodTown #004
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FoodTown #004 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Apples (Sheffield Lake) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Apples (Sheffield Lake) averages 4.9 TCR (144% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Apples (Sheffield Lake) TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2017=7.1 · 2018=9.3 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Apples (Sheffield Lake) falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #578 safest of 748 Grocery stores employers in Ohio.

Apples (Sheffield Lake) (64 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 Apples (Sheffield Lake)
Apples (Sheffield Lake) (64 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Apples (Sheffield Lake) has fewer 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
2024 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2023 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2022 5.4 5.4 2 0 0
2021 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2020 4.9 2.5 2 0 0
2019 4.9 0.0 2 0 0
2018 9.3 2.3 4 0 0
2017 7.1 0.0 3 0 0
2016 4.2 4.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · OH · Sheffield Lake

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 4 employers in Sheffield Lake, OH · 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 FoodTown #004 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Fresh Market 022 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Fresh Market 071 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leevers Foods Carrington 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wm. A. Natorp Company 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE TIMBUK FARMS INC 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE GreenTop Acres, LLC 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chillicothe Service Center 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Superior Medical Care - Sheffield 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sheffield Family Health Center 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marc Glassman Inc 26SC 50 FTE
NAT-TCR Select Specialty Hospital - Evansville, LLC 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pioneer Feedyard LLC 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Brackenbox 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Downtown Aquarium Houston 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Propak - Pasco RLC, WA 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tri-Seal, a Tekni-Plex Company in Blauvelt, NY 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE GSM - Port of Corpus Christi 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allsteel & Gypsum Products 64 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.