Grocery Stores · Maryland

Giant 159

Baltimore, MD · ~154 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Giant 159 runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Giant 159: 4.7 TCR = 139% of Grocery Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Giant 159 safety composite

Giant 159 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−1.6

2017→2024

Giant 159 injury rate improved

Giant 159's TCR fell 1.6 from 6.1 in 2017 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.1 · 2018=2.0 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Baltimore, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 139% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #439/806
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 001
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~154 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 001 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Giant 159 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Giant 159 averages 4.7 TCR (139% of the Grocery Stores BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Giant 159 TCR series: 2017=6.1 · 2018=2 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Giant 159 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Stores establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #439 safest of 806 Grocery Stores employers in Maryland.

Giant 159 (154 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 Giant 159
Giant 159 (154 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Giant 159 has more employees than the Grocery Stores 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
2024 4.5 3.6 5 0 0
2023 4.6 4.6 5 0 0
2022 6.3 5.4 7 0 0
2018 2.0 0.0 1 1 0
2017 6.1 3.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MD · Baltimore

30,654 Grocery Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 1,031 employers in Baltimore, MD · 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 001 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Fresh Market 218 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Middletown Karns Food Store 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lowes Foods #259 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Emjay Engineering & Construction CO. Inc. 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bryant Group Inc. 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE MD-ABERD01-Aberdeen MD 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2244 LOWE S OF COLUMBIA MD 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johns Hopkins Hospital 12,523 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Maryland Medical Center 7,980 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sinai Hospital of Baltimore 7,770 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGMS-T340 6,180 FTE
NAT-TCR Anoplate Corporation 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Discount Comic Book Service, Inc 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Phl Ltl 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR La Vergne 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6288 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6480 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6541 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6545 154 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2018, 2017. 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.