Grocery Stores · New York

Western Lights #174

Name: Western Lights #174 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Syracuse, NY · ~127 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.1
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Western Lights #174 runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Grocery Stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Western Lights #174: 2.1 TCR = 62% of Grocery Stores BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Western Lights #174 safety composite

Western Lights #174 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% 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).

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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

Western Lights #174: 1.2 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2023

Western Lights #174's TCR rose 1.7 from 1.2 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 62% of ind

DART 1.4 DART
RANK #100/1322
PHOTO Store #11
BOOK 7y book
INJ 11 inj
SIZE ~127 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store #11 (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.1
Store #11

2.1
Giant Eagle #0

2.1
Price Rite Sto

2.1
Tabor City IGA

2.1

What this shows Western Lights #174 averages 2.1 TCR (62% of the Grocery Stores BLS benchmark).

Western Lights #174 TCR series: 2016=1.2 · 2017=5 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.5 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=2.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Western Lights #174 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Stores establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #100 safest of 1322 Grocery Stores employers in New York.

Western Lights #174 (127 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Western Lights #174 has more 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
2023	2.9	1.4	2
2022	2.8	1.4	2
2021	1.3	0.0	1
2019	1.5	0.0	1
2018	0.0	0.0	0
2017	5.0	2.5	4
2016	1.2	0.0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · NY · Syracuse

30,654 Grocery Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 436 employers in Syracuse, NY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Store #11	BRENHAM, TX	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Giant Eagle #0061	PITTSBURGH, PA	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Price Rite Store 271 Schenectady	SCHENECTADY, NY	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Tabor City IGA #640	TABOR CITY, NC	2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	West Nyack	WEST NYACK	127 FTE
STATE-SIZE	New Line Structures	NEW YORK	127 FTE
STATE-SIZE	West Seneca	WEST SENECA	127 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Appolo Heating	SCHENECTADY	127 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Joseph's Health	Syracuse	4,299 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY	Syracuse	3,970 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center	Syracuse	3,720 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center-SJH-NY	Syracuse	2,803 FTE
NAT-TCR	Montrose #185	Montrose, PA	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Texas Industrial Security	Fort Worth, TX	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Central Region Distribution	Muscatine, IA	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	E.H. Wachs	Lincolnshire, IL	2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	St. Albans #127	St. Albans, VT	127 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Linc 2860 (Clark Street - M)	Detroit, MI	127 FTE
NAT-SIZE	North End Middle School	Waterbury, CT	127 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Baltimore Plant	Baltimore, MD	127 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 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.