Supermarkets · Massachusetts

Big Y Foods, Inc. St. James

Springfield, MA · ~113 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Y Foods, Inc. St. James runs at 157% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade D.

Big Y Foods, Inc. St. James: 5.3 TCR = 157% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Y Foods, Inc. St. James safety composite

Big Y Foods, Inc. St. James scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−2.8

2016→2022

Big Y Foods, Inc. St. James injury rate improved

Big Y Foods, Inc. St. James's TCR fell 2.8 from 2.8 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.8 · 2017=9.9 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=3.0 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 157% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #413/842
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 070
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 070 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Y Foods, Inc. St. James in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Y Foods, Inc. St. James averages 5.3 TCR (157% 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. St. James TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2017=9.9 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=3 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Big Y Foods, Inc. St. James falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #413 safest of 842 Supermarkets employers in Massachusetts.

Big Y Foods, Inc. St. James (113 employees, TCR 5.3) 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. St. James
Big Y Foods, Inc. St. James (113 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Big Y Foods, Inc. St. James 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 7.3 7.3 5 0 0
2020 3.0 3.0 2 0 0
2019 8.7 8.7 5 1 0
2018 5.7 5.7 4 0 0
2017 9.9 4.2 7 0 0
2016 2.8 1.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MA · Springfield

30,654 Supermarkets employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 215 employers in Springfield, 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 The Fresh Market 070 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Redner's Warehouse Market Douglassville 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ShopRite of Maple & Hemlock 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jons# 15 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brattan Industries 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Patriot Beverages 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE UFP Belchertown LLC 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Erving Industries, Inc. 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR BMC - Baystate Medical Center 8,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR BMP - Baystate Medical Practices 1,977 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Tarp Redevelopment, LLC d/b/a MGM Springfield 1,867 FTE
CITY-NEAR BMF - Baystate Medical Practices 1,746 FTE
NAT-TCR Stoneburner 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Polk County-All Locations 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 2253-H4823 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 2253-H4840 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE YMCA Alexandria 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Y Foods, Inc. East Windsor 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tri Eagle Sales - Ocala 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rowley Plastering 113 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.