Grocery stores · Massachusetts

Berkshire Food Co-op

Great Barrington, MA · ~66 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Berkshire Food Co-op runs at 393% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Berkshire Food Co-op: 13.3 TCR = 393% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Berkshire Food Co-op safety composite

Berkshire Food Co-op scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Berkshire Food Co-op: 10.0 → 20.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 20.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2024

Berkshire Food Co-op's TCR rose 10.6 from 10.0 in 2018 to 20.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Great Barrington, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.3 · 393% of ind

  • DART 10.3 DART
  • RANK #814/842
  • PHOTO 6962-SWY-0025-0025-0…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6962-SWY-0025-0025-00984 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Berkshire Food Co-op in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Berkshire Food Co-op averages 13.3 TCR (393% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Berkshire Food Co-op TCR series: 2018=10 · 2023=9.3 · 2024=20.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Berkshire Food Co-op falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #814 safest of 842 Grocery stores employers in Massachusetts.

Berkshire Food Co-op (66 employees, TCR 13.3) 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 Berkshire Food Co-op
Berkshire Food Co-op (66 employees, TCR 13.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Berkshire Food Co-op 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 20.7 10.3 5 1 0
2023 9.3 7.5 5 0 0
2018 10.0 2.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MA · Great Barrington

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 16 employers in Great Barrington, MA · 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 6962-SWY-0025-0025-00984 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-03281 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5472-NAI-0033-0033-00686 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5472-NAI-0034-0034-03636 13.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE A&M Roofing Services, LLC 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE New England electrical contracting corp 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE BT Auburndale 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office-Main 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Butternut Basin, Inc. 465 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ski Butternut 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR FAIRVIEW COMMONS NURSING & REHAB CTR 162 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairview Commons 141 FTE
NAT-TCR Oaks at Dalton 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cate Machine and Welding, Inc. 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Coora - Aurora Hub 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Chapel Ridge Health and Rehab 13.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE IRS Environmental of WA, Inc 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Everest Waterproofing & Restoration, Inc 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE RP Constructors, LLC 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE 130 Roswell 66 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, 2018. 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.