Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores · Pennsylvania

Middletown Karns Food Store

Middletown, PA · ~98 workers · 4 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

Middletown Karns Food Store runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Middletown Karns Food Store: 4.7 TCR = 139% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Middletown Karns Food Store safety composite

Middletown Karns Food Store scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

38/100

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
F 6.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Middletown Karns Food Store: 4.1 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.45× in 2024

Middletown Karns Food Store's TCR rose 5.0 from 4.1 in 2016 to 9.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Middletown, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 139% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #610/1287
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 001
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

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

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Middletown Karns Food Store in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Middletown Karns Food Store averages 4.7 TCR (139% of the Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Middletown Karns Food Store TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2019=2 · 2020=3.5 · 2024=9.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Middletown Karns Food Store falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #610 safest of 1287 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in Pennsylvania.

Middletown Karns Food Store (98 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 Middletown Karns Food Store
Middletown Karns Food Store (98 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Middletown Karns Food Store has fewer employees than the Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except C 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 9.1 6.8 2 2 0
2020 3.5 1.8 2 0 0
2019 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2016 4.1 4.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · PA · Middletown

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 99 employers in Middletown, PA · 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 Lowes Foods #259 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR GENE'S HEARTLAND FOODS 712 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Franklin Labs D/B/A Trulieve 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oregon Maintenance Shop 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hankin Group 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Daniel J. Keating 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR PATWN - EAST ZONE REGIONAL HUB 1,864 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phoenix Contact 982 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-ZEHR 629 FTE
CITY-NEAR NHS 532 FTE
NAT-TCR Dragon Products Silsbee North 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bay Converting Inc 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR RDU 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Medley 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Van Buren Health and Rehabilitation 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Omaha, NE OFC 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cheney Care Center 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE ACE-Pleasantville Operations 98 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, 2020, 2019, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.