Food (i.e., groceries) stores · New York

Tops Market #21

Buffalo, NY · ~274 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tops Market #21 runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Food (i.e., groceries) stores workplace, earning a grade C.

Tops Market #21: 2.8 TCR = 84% of Food (i.e., groceries) stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tops Market #21 safety composite

Tops Market #21 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2018→2020

Tops Market #21 injury rate improved

Tops Market #21's TCR fell 1.0 from 3.4 in 2018 to 2.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.4 · 2020=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 84% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #187/1322
  • PHOTO Store #43
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~274 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store #43 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tops Market #21 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tops Market #21 averages 2.8 TCR (84% of the Food (i.e., groceries) stores BLS benchmark).

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

Tops Market #21 TCR series: 2018=3.4 · 2020=2.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Tops Market #21 falls in its industry

30,654 Food (i.e., groceries) stores establishments

Safer than 79% 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 #187 safest of 1322 Food (i.e., groceries) stores employers in New York.

Tops Market #21 (274 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 0100200300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Tops Market #21
Tops Market #21 (274 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Tops Market #21 has more employees than the Food (i.e., groceries) 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
2020 2.3 0.6 4 0 0
2018 3.4 1.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NY · Buffalo

30,654 Food (i.e., groceries) 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 Store #43 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giant Eagle #0010 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR East Haven Markets LLC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0415 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office - 01 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE Comfortex Corporation 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE STOP & SHOP 0583 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4795-EA-LGA-NEW YORK - LAGUARDIA-EAGLE ACS 274 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 338 Wichita, Ks 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Grandview North Plant 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 621 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Christus Santa Rosa - Medical Center 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fervalue Ferrara Confections Bloomington IL 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Sidney 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glaxo Smith Kline LLC DPC 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warren Performance Packaging 274 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: 2020, 2018. 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.