Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores · Pennsylvania
Mechanicsburg Karns Food Store
Mechanicsburg, PA · ~136 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 4.6
- Avg TCR
- 3.4
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Mechanicsburg Karns Food Store runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores workplace, earning a grade D.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 4.6
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.4
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 11
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Mechanicsburg Karns Food Store's OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 4 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.
Injury rate over time
Mechanicsburg Karns Food Store's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.4 industry benchmark.
Where Mechanicsburg Karns Food Store falls in its industry
31,897 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishmentsSafer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.
Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #637 safest of 1328 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in Pennsylvania.
Mechanicsburg Karns Food Store has an average TCR of 4.6, which is 136% of the industry average (3.4) for Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores. This is worse than average.
The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.
Trend analysis for Mechanicsburg Karns Food Store
Between 2016 and 2024, Mechanicsburg Karns Food Store's Total Case Rate improved from 6.3 to 4.5 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 29% decrease across 8 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2019, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2020 saw the highest rate, at 7.7, a spread of 7.7 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 4 reporting years, Mechanicsburg Karns Food Store recorded 11 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 4-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Mechanicsburg Karns Food Store's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 445110 - Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
3 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 133,128 hours worked = 4.51 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Mechanicsburg Karns Food Store (this establishment) | 4.63 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 4-year avg |
| Grocery stores industry avg | 3.40 | BLS IIF, NAICS 445110 |
| Pennsylvania state avg (all industries) | 5.06 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Mechanicsburg Karns Food Store to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 3 reportable incidents · 3 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 6 reportable incidents · 5 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 3 reportable incidents · 3 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 7.7 | 6.4 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 6.3 | 6.3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Mechanicsburg Karns Food Store's reported OSHA injury record versus its Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 136% of the Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores benchmark, Mechanicsburg Karns Food Store reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.