Supermarkets · Massachusetts

Big Y Foods, Inc. May Street

Worcester, MA · ~122 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Y Foods, Inc. May Street runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade C.

Big Y Foods, Inc. May Street: 3.5 TCR = 103% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Y Foods, Inc. May Street safety composite

Big Y Foods, Inc. May Street scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

−3.1

2016→2022

Big Y Foods, Inc. May Street injury rate improved

Big Y Foods, Inc. May Street's TCR fell 3.1 from 5.8 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.8 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=8.9 · 2022=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 103% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #187/842
  • PHOTO Wadesboro IGA #630
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~122 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wadesboro IGA #630 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Y Foods, Inc. May Street in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Y Foods, Inc. May Street averages 3.5 TCR (103% 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. May Street TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2017=2.3 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=8.9 · 2022=2.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Y Foods, Inc. May Street falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 69% 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 #187 safest of 842 Supermarkets employers in Massachusetts.

Big Y Foods, Inc. May Street (122 employees, TCR 3.5) 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. May Street
Big Y Foods, Inc. May Street (122 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Big Y Foods, Inc. May Street 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 2.6 2.6 2 0 0
2021 8.9 7.6 6 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2018 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2017 2.3 1.2 2 0 0
2016 5.8 4.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MA · Worcester

30,654 Supermarkets employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 248 employers in Worcester, 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 Wadesboro IGA #630 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0324 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1037 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1063 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE OPERATIONS CENTER-MA38 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Component Assembly Systems Boston MA. 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medford Wellington Service 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Araujo Bros Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR UMass Memorial Health 12,452 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-813 2,492 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Vincent hospital 1,965 FTE
CITY-NEAR NBC Distributors Inc 1,276 FTE
NAT-TCR Fresh Express Incorporated 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR HG1036 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kabar Manufacturing Corp. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Qfix - Church Rd 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Y Foods, Inc. Norwich 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manny's Steakhouse 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-ABS-0019-0018-00577 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-SWY-0017-0017-02615 122 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.