Delicatessens primarily retailing a range of grocery items and meats · Florida

Ward's Supermarket, Inc

Gainesville, FL · ~90 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ward's Supermarket, Inc runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Delicatessens primarily retailing a range of grocery items and meats workplace, earning a grade C.

Ward's Supermarket, Inc: 3.0 TCR = 87% of Delicatessens primarily retailing a range of grocery items and meats BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ward's Supermarket, Inc safety composite

Ward's Supermarket, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% 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 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.01 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

−1.2

2017→2024

Ward's Supermarket, Inc injury rate improved

Ward's Supermarket, Inc's TCR fell 1.2 from 1.2 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.2 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=3.8 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=7.3 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Gainesville, FL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 87% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #437/1891
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 155
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 155 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ward's Supermarket, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ward's Supermarket, Inc averages 3.0 TCR (87% of the Delicatessens primarily retailing a range of grocery items and meats BLS benchmark).

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

Ward's Supermarket, Inc TCR series: 2017=1.2 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=3.8 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=7.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Ward's Supermarket, Inc falls in its industry

30,654 Delicatessens primarily retail establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #437 safest of 1891 Delicatessens primarily retail employers in Florida.

Ward's Supermarket, Inc (90 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Ward's Supermarket, Inc
Ward's Supermarket, Inc (90 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Ward's Supermarket, Inc has fewer employees than the Delicatessens primarily retailing a rang 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
2024 0.0 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 7.3 7.3 6 0 0
2021 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2020 3.8 1.3 3 0 0
2019 3.8 2.5 3 0 0
2018 6.3 3.8 5 0 0
2017 1.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · FL · Gainesville

30,654 Delicatessens primarily retailing a range of grocery items and meats employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 278 employers in Gainesville, FL · 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 155 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lowes Foods #160 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giant Eagle #0072 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Loreen Food Corp. 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE BHN 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cooperative Producerse, Inc. 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE KING RANCH FLORIDA FARM 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake Buena Vista Complex 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shands UF Hospital 9,178 FTE
CITY-NEAR Terrace Health & Rehabilitation Center 9,005 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA Florida North Florida Hospital 2,414 FTE
CITY-NEAR NORTH FLORIDA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 1,770 FTE
NAT-TCR East Meadow 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Redd Roofing and Construction 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Speed Fab-Crete 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Broadway 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Otterbein Batavia 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nucor Steel Kingman 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Granco Clark Inc 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Magnolia, LA 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.