Grocery Stores · Massachusetts

Worcester Fair #160

Worcester, MA · ~120 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Worcester Fair #160 runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Worcester Fair #160: 4.8 TCR = 141% of Grocery Stores BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Worcester Fair #160 safety composite

Worcester Fair #160 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−7.4

2016→2023

Worcester Fair #160 injury rate improved

Worcester Fair #160's TCR fell 7.4 from 9.1 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.1 · 2017=6.5 · 2018=8.4 · 2019=6.2 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Worcester, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 141% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #355/842
  • PHOTO Beloit 14
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Beloit 14 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Worcester Fair #160 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Worcester Fair #160 averages 4.8 TCR (141% of the Grocery Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Worcester Fair #160 TCR series: 2016=9.1 · 2017=6.5 · 2018=8.4 · 2019=6.2 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Worcester Fair #160 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Stores establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #355 safest of 842 Grocery Stores employers in Massachusetts.

Worcester Fair #160 (120 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Worcester Fair #160
Worcester Fair #160 (120 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Worcester Fair #160 has more 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
2023 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 6.2 3.1 4 0 0
2018 8.4 4.2 6 0 0
2017 6.5 3.9 5 0 0
2016 9.1 5.2 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MA · Worcester

30,654 Grocery Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 248 employers in Worcester, MA · 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 Beloit 14 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1431 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 016-00977 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 024-00785 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE DORCHESTER COMM L PT-MA10 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Structure Tone Building Group 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE NEL Corporation 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE PRIME STEEL ERECTING, INC 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR UMass Memorial Health 12,452 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-813 2,492 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Vincent hospital 1,965 FTE
CITY-NEAR NBC Distributors Inc 1,276 FTE
NAT-TCR Sanderson Farms Adel Live Haul 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Decal Company, Inc 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Suwanee Ga 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Reich Tool & Design 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ogdensburg #030 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marshalls Creek #236 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Binghamton #237 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Edward, NY #249 120 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.

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

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