Supermarkets · Massachusetts

Big Y Foods, Inc. Amherst

Amherst, MA · ~137 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Y Foods, Inc. Amherst runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade C.

Big Y Foods, Inc. Amherst: 3.1 TCR = 92% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Y Foods, Inc. Amherst safety composite

Big Y Foods, Inc. Amherst scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−1.2

2016→2022

Big Y Foods, Inc. Amherst injury rate improved

Big Y Foods, Inc. Amherst's TCR fell 1.2 from 1.2 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.2 · 2017=6.6 · 2018=8.1 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Amherst, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 92% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #154/842
  • PHOTO Alamo Food Rite
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alamo Food Rite (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Y Foods, Inc. Amherst in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Y Foods, Inc. Amherst averages 3.1 TCR (92% of the Supermarkets BLS benchmark).

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

Big Y Foods, Inc. Amherst TCR series: 2016=1.2 · 2017=6.6 · 2018=8.1 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Y Foods, Inc. Amherst falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 74% 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 #154 safest of 842 Supermarkets employers in Massachusetts.

Big Y Foods, Inc. Amherst (137 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Big Y Foods, Inc. Amherst
Big Y Foods, Inc. Amherst (137 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Big Y Foods, Inc. Amherst has more employees than the Supermarkets 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2020 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2019 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2018 8.1 8.1 7 0 0
2017 6.6 3.3 6 0 0
2016 1.2 1.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MA · Amherst

30,654 Supermarkets employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 10 employers in Amherst, 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 Alamo Food Rite 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 983 GRIMES 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0410 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1487 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Avangrid Renewables - Boston Office 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE BROCKTON-MA60 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE CLINE_N.Andover, MA 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE AZCO INC. - Salem Harbor Power Plant 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amherst 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Lord Jeffery Inn 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Arbors at Amherst 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Applewood at Amherst 74 FTE
NAT-TCR Country Mart # 77 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kalsec, Inc - Kalamazoo 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Madison County Services 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR HG1020 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Y Foods, Inc. Mansfield 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Topsoils dba United Recycling and Container 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE HFS-HNL 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vibra Hospital of Northwest Indiana, LLC d/b/a Vibra Hospital of Northwestern Indiana 137 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: 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.