Supermarkets · Massachusetts

Big Y Foods, Inc. Saugus

Saugus, MA · ~91 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Y Foods, Inc. Saugus runs at 243% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade F.

Big Y Foods, Inc. Saugus: 8.3 TCR = 243% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Y Foods, Inc. Saugus safety composite

Big Y Foods, Inc. Saugus scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

−12.8

2016→2020

Big Y Foods, Inc. Saugus injury rate improved

Big Y Foods, Inc. Saugus's TCR fell 12.8 from 16.1 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 16.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=16.1 · 2017=12.1 · 2018=8.3 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Saugus, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 243% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #707/842
  • PHOTO SWY-0017-0017-00274 …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SWY-0017-0017-00274 FAC-00274-PRESCOTT-AZ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Y Foods, Inc. Saugus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Y Foods, Inc. Saugus averages 8.3 TCR (243% 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. Saugus TCR series: 2016=16.1 · 2017=12.1 · 2018=8.3 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=3.3 · BLS 3.4

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

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #707 safest of 842 Supermarkets employers in Massachusetts.

Big Y Foods, Inc. Saugus (91 employees, TCR 8.3) 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. Saugus
Big Y Foods, Inc. Saugus (91 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Big Y Foods, Inc. Saugus has fewer 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
2020 3.3 1.6 2 0 0
2019 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2018 8.3 6.6 5 0 0
2017 12.1 12.1 8 0 0
2016 16.1 16.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MA · Saugus

30,654 Supermarkets employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 36 employers in Saugus, 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 SWY-0017-0017-00274 FAC-00274-PRESCOTT-AZ 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWY-0024-0024-03480 FAC-03480-STANWOOD-WA 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1355 Fre91 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 69030006-42 CARDENAS MARKETS 42 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Weston Nurseries 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wise Construction 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlantic Boston Construction 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE CSI NE 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3114 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3114 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR Square One 226 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1290 - Saugus 236 FTE
NAT-TCR 234770-Jessup Po 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Town & Country Supermarket #2448 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cheshire House 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1636 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Timeless Decor 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bushel Boy Farms, LLP 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sandston SEFF 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Cove, NC - Replenishment Center 91 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: 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.