Supermarkets · Massachusetts

Big Y Foods, Inc. Palmer

Palmer, MA · ~134 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Y Foods, Inc. Palmer runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Y Foods, Inc. Palmer: 6.1 TCR = 179% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Y Foods, Inc. Palmer safety composite

Big Y Foods, Inc. Palmer scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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 6.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.33 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

−5.4

2016→2022

Big Y Foods, Inc. Palmer injury rate improved

Big Y Foods, Inc. Palmer's TCR fell 5.4 from 6.7 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.7 · 2017=4.6 · 2018=9.2 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=6.1 · 2021=10.1 · 2022=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 179% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #516/842
  • PHOTO Store 0452
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~134 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 0452 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Y Foods, Inc. Palmer in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Y Foods, Inc. Palmer averages 6.1 TCR (179% 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. Palmer TCR series: 2016=6.7 · 2017=4.6 · 2018=9.2 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=6.1 · 2021=10.1 · 2022=1.3 · BLS 3.4

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

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #516 safest of 842 Supermarkets employers in Massachusetts.

Big Y Foods, Inc. Palmer (134 employees, TCR 6.1) 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. Palmer
Big Y Foods, Inc. Palmer (134 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Big Y Foods, Inc. Palmer 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 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2021 10.1 8.8 8 0 0
2020 6.1 6.1 5 0 0
2019 4.6 3.5 4 0 0
2018 9.2 8.1 8 0 0
2017 4.6 3.4 4 0 0
2016 6.7 6.7 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MA · Palmer

30,654 Supermarkets employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 27 employers in Palmer, 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 Store 0452 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR LMMM HOUSTON #63, LTD 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 011-00620 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 016-00312 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Charles Service and Equipment 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE All Clear Plumbing & Heating 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brewster Home Fashions, LLC 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ron Bouchard's Auto Sales, Inc 134 FTE
CITY-NEAR WMH - Wing Memorial Hospital 676 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWH - Baystate Wing Hospital 668 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Tree Service, LLC 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern General Contractors Inc 168 FTE
NAT-TCR 505124-Newport Po 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Environment Control Greater Orange County, Inc 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Aurora St. Lukes South Shore 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 476145-Nashville Tn P&Dc 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Y Foods, Inc. Monroe 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2904-ASM-ID 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highline Rehabilitation and Care Community 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE ACTS Retirement-Life Communities-Lima Estates 134 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.