Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores · Pennsylvania

Paxton Square Karns Food Store

Harrisburg, PA · ~205 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Paxton Square Karns Food Store runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Paxton Square Karns Food Store: 3.7 TCR = 110% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paxton Square Karns Food Store safety composite

Paxton Square Karns Food Store scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−2.5

2016→2024

Paxton Square Karns Food Store injury rate improved

Paxton Square Karns Food Store's TCR fell 2.5 from 5.3 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.3 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=2.6 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Harrisburg, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 110% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #413/1287
  • PHOTO Store #54
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~205 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store #54 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Paxton Square Karns Food Store in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paxton Square Karns Food Store averages 3.7 TCR (110% 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

Paxton Square Karns Food Store TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=2.6 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Paxton Square Karns Food Store falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 64% 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 #413 safest of 1287 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in Pennsylvania.

Paxton Square Karns Food Store (205 employees, TCR 3.7) 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 Paxton Square Karns Food Store
Paxton Square Karns Food Store (205 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Paxton Square Karns Food Store has more employees than the Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except C median and a lower 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 2.8 2.8 3 0 0
2020 2.6 1.7 3 0 0
2019 4.3 4.3 5 0 0
2016 5.3 5.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · PA · Harrisburg

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 · 362 employers in Harrisburg, 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 Store #54 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR WELLSBORO 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0687 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0761 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Barrel o'Fun Snack Foods Co. East LLC 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE WCR 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE CCL Tube, Ind. Wilkes-Barre 205 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cardinal IG - Wilkes-Barre IG 205 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Pinnacle Hospitals 4,843 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHS/HARRISBURG HOSPITAL 2,703 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pinnacle Health Medical Services 2,426 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Pinnacle 2,311 FTE
NAT-TCR Goodwill CFL - Winter Garden 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Yankee Pine Corporation 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Flint River Mills- Mill Department 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR CMP - Belfast Service Building 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Public Works 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pridestar EMS 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buckeye Powe Sales - Blacklick 205 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sun Prairie 31 205 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.