Supermarkets · Massachusetts

Big Y Foods, Inc. Kingston

Kingston, MA · ~130 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Y Foods, Inc. Kingston runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Y Foods, Inc. Kingston: 4.4 TCR = 129% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Y Foods, Inc. Kingston safety composite

Big Y Foods, Inc. Kingston scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

−1.8

2016→2022

Big Y Foods, Inc. Kingston injury rate improved

Big Y Foods, Inc. Kingston's TCR fell 1.8 from 3.1 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.1 · 2017=5.7 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=6.5 · 2020=5.9 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 129% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #303/842
  • PHOTO 6400-SWY 0017 2088
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~130 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6400-SWY 0017 2088 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Y Foods, Inc. Kingston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Y Foods, Inc. Kingston averages 4.4 TCR (129% of the Supermarkets BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Big Y Foods, Inc. Kingston TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2017=5.7 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=6.5 · 2020=5.9 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=1.3 · BLS 3.4

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

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 54% 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 #303 safest of 842 Supermarkets employers in Massachusetts.

Big Y Foods, Inc. Kingston (130 employees, TCR 4.4) 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. Kingston
Big Y Foods, Inc. Kingston (130 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Big Y Foods, Inc. Kingston 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 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2021 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2020 5.9 3.5 5 0 0
2019 6.5 6.5 6 0 0
2018 5.7 5.7 5 0 0
2017 5.7 3.4 5 0 0
2016 3.1 3.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MA · Kingston

30,654 Supermarkets employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 24 employers in Kingston, 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 6400-SWY 0017 2088 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20500002-390 STORE 390 - VENTURA 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 3090 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY 0025 1211 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trader Joe's 0528 Foxborough 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1090 BILLERICA 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE 240952-BROCKTON PO 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2253-N0573 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR wingate at silver lake 237 FTE
CITY-NEAR L. Knife & Son 229 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1495 - Kingston 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wingate 187 FTE
NAT-TCR HG817 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SuperMax Guaynabo 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0418 Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. - Wichita 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bodycote Thermal Processing, Inc. - Canton Haggerty 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2904-SAS-AR 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2904-SAS-LA 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE ACTS Retirement-Life Communities-Country House 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oreug - Eugene 130 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.