Supermarkets · Massachusetts

Big Y Foods, Inc. Franklin

Franklin, MA · ~119 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Y Foods, Inc. Franklin runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Y Foods, Inc. Franklin: 6.0 TCR = 176% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Y Foods, Inc. Franklin safety composite

Big Y Foods, Inc. Franklin scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

−4.2

2016→2022

Big Y Foods, Inc. Franklin injury rate improved

Big Y Foods, Inc. Franklin's TCR fell 4.2 from 10.1 in 2016 to 5.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.1 · 2017=8.8 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=4.0 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=5.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Franklin, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 176% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #502/842
  • PHOTO Lowes Foods #230
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lowes Foods #230 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Y Foods, Inc. Franklin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Y Foods, Inc. Franklin averages 6.0 TCR (176% 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. Franklin TCR series: 2016=10.1 · 2017=8.8 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=4 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=5.9 · BLS 3.4

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

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #502 safest of 842 Supermarkets employers in Massachusetts.

Big Y Foods, Inc. Franklin (119 employees, TCR 6.0) 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. Franklin
Big Y Foods, Inc. Franklin (119 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Big Y Foods, Inc. Franklin has more employees than the Supermarkets 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
2022 5.9 5.9 4 0 0
2021 2.8 2.8 2 0 0
2020 4.0 4.0 3 0 0
2019 5.2 5.2 4 0 0
2018 5.1 3.9 4 0 0
2017 8.8 8.8 7 0 0
2016 10.1 8.9 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MA · Franklin

30,654 Supermarkets employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 85 employers in Franklin, 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 Lowes Foods #230 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The White Market I 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10103 Roosevelt Square 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nijiya Market - SA 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Berkshire Gas Company 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Adtech Systems LLC 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holyoke Massachusetts 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE N.B. Kenney Co., Inc 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR Taunton 1,691 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franklin 55 675 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franklin 50 670 FTE
CITY-NEAR Horace Mann Educational Associates 633 FTE
NAT-TCR Bovina Cattle Company 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR First Student 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0030-0030-00155 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Piedmont Health Care Center 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE The George D. Alan Co 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gelson's Markets #6 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hospice 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-ABS-0017-0016-00093 119 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.