445299 All Other Specialty Food Stores · Massachusetts

River Valley Co-op Northampton

Northampton, MA · ~105 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

River Valley Co-op Northampton runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical 445299 All Other Specialty Food Stores workplace, earning a grade C.

River Valley Co-op Northampton: 3.9 TCR = 115% of 445299 All Other Specialty Food Stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

River Valley Co-op Northampton safety composite

River Valley Co-op Northampton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

River Valley Co-op Northampton held a steady TCR band

River Valley Co-op Northampton's TCR held near 0.3 from 4.3 in 2021 to 4.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.3 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445299 · Northampton, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 115% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK P67
  • PHOTO Garland Food/Miami
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~105 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Garland Food/Miami (0.1 TCR gap)

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River Valley Co-op Northampton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows River Valley Co-op Northampton averages 3.9 TCR (115% of the 445299 All Other Specialty Food Stores BLS benchmark).

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

River Valley Co-op Northampton TCR series: 2021=4.3 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 3.4

Where River Valley Co-op Northampton falls in its industry

39 445299 All Other Specialty Foo establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
River Valley Co-op Northampton (105 employees, TCR 3.9) among 20 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 6.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 21 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 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate River Valley Co-op Northampton
River Valley Co-op Northampton (105 employees, TCR 3.9) among 20 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 6.5

River Valley Co-op Northampton has more employees than the 445299 All Other Specialty Food Stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.5. 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 4.6 4.6 4 0 0
2023 5.6 5.6 5 0 0
2022 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2021 4.3 4.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445299 · MA · Northampton

39 445299 All Other Specialty Food Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 40 employers in Northampton, MA · 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 Garland Food/Miami 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Renard's Cheese Store, LLC 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DeVitis & Son's Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Claro's Arcadia 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Manafort-Precision, LLC 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electrical Dynamics, Inc. 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE First Nick Companies 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springfield MA Sheet Plant 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR COOLEY DICKINSON HOSPITAL 1,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooley Dickinson Practice Assoc. 483 FTE
CITY-NEAR COOLEY DICKINSON PRACTICE ASSOCIATES 474 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coca-Cola Northampton 328 FTE
NAT-TCR North Salt Lake City UT FXFE-NSL 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dubuque IA FXFE-DBQ 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 606 - Spokane 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #300 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Swagelok Eastlake 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Omega Construction, Inc. 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE GEHC : El Paso TX, HCS 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avid Radiopharmaceuticals Inc 105 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. 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.