Grocery stores · New York

Tops 250

Buffalo, NY · ~80 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tops 250 runs at 354% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Tops 250: 12.0 TCR = 354% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tops 250 safety composite

Tops 250 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 32.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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 250: 2.1 → 32.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 32.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2.67× in 2022

Tops 250's TCR rose 30.0 from 2.1 in 2016 to 32.1 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 12.0 · 354% of ind

  • DART 32.1 DART
  • RANK #1220/1322
  • PHOTO SWY-0029-0029-02374 …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SWY-0029-0029-02374 FAC-02374-BIG BEAR LAKE-CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tops 250 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tops 250 averages 12.0 TCR (354% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Tops 250 TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=11.2 · 2018=6.1 · 2019=11.6 · 2020=10.3 · 2021=10.8 · 2022=32.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Tops 250 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 8% 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 #1220 safest of 1322 Grocery stores employers in New York.

Tops 250 (80 employees, TCR 12.0) 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 250
Tops 250 (80 employees, TCR 12.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Tops 250 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 32.1 32.1 7 11 0
2021 10.8 9.0 6 0 0
2020 10.3 10.3 5 1 0
2019 11.6 11.6 6 0 0
2018 6.1 6.1 3 0 0
2017 11.2 6.7 5 0 0
2016 2.1 2.1 1 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 SWY-0029-0029-02374 FAC-02374-BIG BEAR LAKE-CA 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 02582 - STORE # 2582 WILKESBORO 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY-0027-0027-00585 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store #17 12.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Taconic Biosciences, Inc. Worldwide Headquarters Hudson 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake Ontario Fruit, Inc. 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE First Realty Management 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE 105625 - Jett Carrying - 149MW High River Racking 80 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 Ihop 3118 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gwyn Services 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Two Men and a Truck - Burnsville 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0027-0027-00585 12.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Merced SHAW 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ortho Molecular Products Woodstock Office 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE J&B Acoustical Inc 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cherry Point Bay Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 80 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.