Grocery stores · New York

Tops 239

Buffalo, NY · ~162 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tops 239 runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Tops 239: 5.6 TCR = 166% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tops 239 safety composite

Tops 239 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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 5.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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 239: 5.2 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2022

Tops 239's TCR rose 0.5 from 5.2 in 2016 to 5.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 166% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #701/1322
  • PHOTO Green Valley Market …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~162 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Green Valley Market Place #52 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tops 239 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tops 239 averages 5.6 TCR (166% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Tops 239 TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2017=6.4 · 2018=6.4 · 2019=8.6 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=5.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Tops 239 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 38% 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 #701 safest of 1322 Grocery stores employers in New York.

Tops 239 (162 employees, TCR 5.6) 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 239
Tops 239 (162 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Tops 239 has more 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 5.7 4.7 6 0 0
2021 3.7 2.8 4 0 0
2020 3.5 2.6 4 0 0
2019 8.6 7.6 9 0 0
2018 6.4 2.7 7 0 0
2017 6.4 6.4 7 0 0
2016 5.2 4.3 6 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 Green Valley Market Place #52 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Fresh Market 118 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Menlo Park 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 8021 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sciame Construction, LLC 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stebbins Engineering and Manufacturing Co. 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donato Plumbing Inc 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE DAY-NIGHT - 03 162 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 HMMI-1 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 37505 Goodman Road, Indio, CA 92203 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Godfreys Feed 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 439 - Newnan 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE DAK Americas Mississippi Inc 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Electric Supply Inc 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walter USA, LLC 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Back Cove Yachts 162 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.