Grocery stores · New York

Price Rite Store 226 Elmwood

Buffalo, NY · ~62 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Price Rite Store 226 Elmwood runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Price Rite Store 226 Elmwood: 5.2 TCR = 153% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Price Rite Store 226 Elmwood safety composite

Price Rite Store 226 Elmwood scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

−6.1

2016→2024

Price Rite Store 226 Elmwood injury rate improved

Price Rite Store 226 Elmwood's TCR fell 6.1 from 9.3 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.3 · 2017=8.7 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=3.2 · 2022=9.6 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 153% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #625/1322
  • PHOTO Rio Grande Supermarket
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rio Grande Supermarket (0.0 TCR gap)

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Price Rite Store 226 Elmwood in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Price Rite Store 226 Elmwood averages 5.2 TCR (153% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Price Rite Store 226 Elmwood TCR series: 2016=9.3 · 2017=8.7 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.2 · 2022=9.6 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Price Rite Store 226 Elmwood falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #625 safest of 1322 Grocery stores employers in New York.

Price Rite Store 226 Elmwood (62 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 Price Rite Store 226 Elmwood
Price Rite Store 226 Elmwood (62 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Price Rite Store 226 Elmwood has fewer 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 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2023 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2022 9.6 9.6 3 0 0
2021 3.2 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2018 7.2 2.4 3 0 0
2017 8.7 4.3 3 1 0
2016 9.3 5.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NY · Buffalo

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 532 employers in Buffalo, NY · 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 Rio Grande Supermarket 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10374 Maui Mall Maui 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 021-00947 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 024-00186 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Columbia Care New York LLC.-Rochester 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty Utilities - Massena 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kings County Waterproofing Corp 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE E-J Energy 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buffalo General Hospital 3,556 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Hospital of Buffalo 2,379 FTE
CITY-NEAR WNY Independent Living, Inc. 1,988 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaleida Health Oishei Childrens Hospital 1,765 FTE
NAT-TCR Martinsburg Wv - Annex 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Secretaria De Infraestructura, Ornato Y Conservacion (Sioc) - Administracion 14146 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Clearfield School Bus 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Laurinburg Transportation -Est 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE J.R. Prisco, Inc. 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lane County Feeders, LLC 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Point Foundry & Machine Co. 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE AM Construction Services, Inc. 62 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.