Grocery stores · New York

Tops 44

Cheektowaga, NY · ~76 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tops 44 runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Tops 44: 4.0 TCR = 117% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tops 44 safety composite

Tops 44 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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 44: 0.0 → 10.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 10.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2.03× in 2022

Tops 44's TCR rose 10.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 10.1 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 117% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #409/1322
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 133
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 133 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tops 44 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tops 44 averages 4.0 TCR (117% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Tops 44 TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=6 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=10.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Tops 44 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 61% 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 #409 safest of 1322 Grocery stores employers in New York.

Tops 44 (76 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 44
Tops 44 (76 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Tops 44 has fewer employees than the Grocery stores median and a lower 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 10.1 8.1 5 0 0
2021 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2020 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2019 6.0 6.0 3 0 0
2018 3.9 3.9 2 0 0
2017 4.0 4.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 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 The Fresh Market 133 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giant Eagle #0017 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vallarta Supermarkets #46 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR KJ's Market #659 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brightfarms Inc. 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE POTSDAM SERVICE CENTER-NY99 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bennett Contracting Inc 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3841_7298 76 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 Solstice Senior Living at Bellingham 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Range Mental Health Center -Perpich 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gaston Electrical Co. Inc. office 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Crabtree Painting 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carlisle Polyurethane Systems - Cartersville 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bixby Intl Corp 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rutland Lumber Yard 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE UW Friday Harbor Labs 76 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.