Grocery stores · New York

Tops 131

Cheektowaga, NY · ~90 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tops 131 runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Tops 131: 6.4 TCR = 189% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tops 131 safety composite

Tops 131 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).

F

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.94 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

Tops 131: 1.7 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 19512.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2022

Tops 131's TCR rose 6.6 from 1.7 in 2016 to 8.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 19512.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 189% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #815/1322
  • PHOTO Store 1053
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 1053 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tops 131 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tops 131 averages 6.4 TCR (189% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Tops 131 TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2017=9 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=9.6 · 2021=19512.2 · 2022=8.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Tops 131 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #815 safest of 1322 Grocery stores employers in New York.

Tops 131 (90 employees, TCR 6.4) 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 Tops 131
Tops 131 (90 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Tops 131 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
2022 8.3 6.9 5 1 0
2021 19512.2 14634.1 4 0 0
2020 9.6 8.0 6 0 0
2019 6.4 4.8 3 1 0
2018 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2017 9.0 5.4 5 0 0
2016 1.7 1.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NY · Cheektowaga

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 150 employers in Cheektowaga, 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 Store 1053 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knowlan's Fresh Foods South St. Paul 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10432 Ocean Ave 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 21 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE NEWBURGH 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE BBL Carlton, LLC 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4593_10293 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE SLG Construction 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office of Field Operations - Buffalo 1,643 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Force 548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sisters of Charity Hospital, St. Joseph Campus 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR Visiting Nurses Association - Erie 407 FTE
NAT-TCR Clark Memorial Health 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Farmers Coop Society #1 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Don Hatting Inc 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100636 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Timonium 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salt & Straw CKOR 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE RRS Marysville 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE When Pigs Fly 90 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.