Grocery stores · Ohio

Apples (Sheffield)

Lorain, OH · ~57 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Apples (Sheffield) runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Apples (Sheffield): 4.5 TCR = 133% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Apples (Sheffield) safety composite

Apples (Sheffield) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Apples (Sheffield): 2.6 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.06× in 2024

Apples (Sheffield)'s TCR rose 6.7 from 2.6 in 2016 to 9.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Lorain, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 133% of ind

  • DART 9.3 DART
  • RANK #547/748
  • PHOTO Hailey
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hailey (0.0 TCR gap)

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Apples (Sheffield) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Apples (Sheffield) averages 4.5 TCR (133% 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) TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2017=8.4 · 2018=5.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=8.4 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=9.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Apples (Sheffield) falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 52% 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 #547 safest of 748 Grocery stores employers in Ohio.

Apples (Sheffield) (57 employees, TCR 4.5) 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)
Apples (Sheffield) (57 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Apples (Sheffield) has fewer employees than the Grocery stores median and a lower 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 9.3 9.3 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.3 6.3 2 0 0
2020 8.4 8.4 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.8 0.0 2 0 0
2017 8.4 5.6 3 0 0
2016 2.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · OH · Lorain

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 85 employers in Lorain, 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 Hailey 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prite Rite Store 347 West Springfield 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CASHSAVER #11 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wheatfield 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mad River 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE HQ 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Equity | ECS 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rack & Ballauer excavating inc. 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Regional Medical Center 1,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Regional Medical Center 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lorain Family Health Center & Surgery Center 506 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lorain FHC Surgery 412 FTE
NAT-TCR Aircraft 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Prite Rite Store 347 West Springfield 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Raleigh 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Flowers Baking Co of Denton, LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE C3 Environmental Specialties Lp 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hosford 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Components LLC 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maxcess - Tidland Keene NH 57 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.