Supermarkets · Massachusetts

Big Y Foods, Inc. Ludlow

Ludlow, MA · ~153 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Y Foods, Inc. Ludlow runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Y Foods, Inc. Ludlow: 6.4 TCR = 189% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Y Foods, Inc. Ludlow safety composite

Big Y Foods, Inc. Ludlow scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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. Ludlow injury rate improved

Big Y Foods, Inc. Ludlow's TCR fell 1.8 from 3.0 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 13.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.0 · 2017=11.3 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=13.4 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 189% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #559/842
  • PHOTO ShopRite of Flemington
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~153 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ShopRite of Flemington (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Y Foods, Inc. Ludlow in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Y Foods, Inc. Ludlow averages 6.4 TCR (189% 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. Ludlow TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=11.3 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=13.4 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=1.2 · BLS 3.4

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

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #559 safest of 842 Supermarkets employers in Massachusetts.

Big Y Foods, Inc. Ludlow (153 employees, TCR 6.4) 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. Ludlow
Big Y Foods, Inc. Ludlow (153 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Big Y Foods, Inc. Ludlow 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 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2021 3.5 3.5 3 0 0
2020 13.4 13.4 12 0 0
2019 6.4 6.4 6 0 0
2018 6.2 6.2 6 0 0
2017 11.3 9.2 11 0 0
2016 3.0 2.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MA · Ludlow

30,654 Supermarkets employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 23 employers in Ludlow, 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 ShopRite of Flemington 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NILMNVentures 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 018-00622 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 701-00682 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Barletta Engineering Corp. 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE JM Electrical Company 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lexington Homes 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phillips-Medisize Northeast 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Western MA 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kleeberg SheetMetal 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kleeberg Sheet Metal 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR Automated Logic Controls (New England) 114 FTE
NAT-TCR Rocky Mountain Pies LLC 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ridgeway on 23rd 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0027-0027-02628 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 120480-Atl-Northridge Br 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gcmtmm LLC 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Home Care / Hospice 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-NAI-0032-0032-00063 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-NAI-0032-0032-00081 153 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.