General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · West Virginia

AF Wendling

Buckhannon, WV · ~117 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AF Wendling runs at 527% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

AF Wendling: 11.6 TCR = 527% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AF Wendling safety composite

AF Wendling scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−6.8

2022→2024

AF Wendling injury rate improved

AF Wendling's TCR fell 6.8 from 15.9 in 2022 to 9.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=15.9 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=9.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Buckhannon, WV ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.6 · 527% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO US Foods Columbia, SC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US Foods Columbia, SC (0.0 TCR gap)

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AF Wendling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AF Wendling averages 11.6 TCR (527% of the General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

AF Wendling TCR series: 2022=15.9 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=9.1 · BLS 2.2

Where AF Wendling falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 General-line groceries merchan employers in West Virginia.

AF Wendling (117 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate AF Wendling
AF Wendling (117 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

AF Wendling has fewer employees than the General-line groceries merchant wholesal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 9.1 8.3 12 0 0
2023 9.8 7.3 11 1 0
2022 15.9 7.5 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · WV · Buckhannon

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 34 employers in Buckhannon, WV · 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 US Foods Columbia, SC 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Restaurant Depot 571 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DiCarlo Distributors 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Custom Distribution Aurora 11.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jay-Bee Oil & Gas, Inc. 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE HE Neumann Company 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Swanson Manufacturing Services 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unit # 0268 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's Hospital of Buckhannon 482 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buckhannon EWP 316 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buckhannon 288 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2809 279 FTE
NAT-TCR Jimmy John's 1425 Ogden 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sch USA LLC 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 4596 - CQ 34th Street No 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Prime Meats Tucker 11.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ed Herrington Inc - Hillsdale 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE W Hoboken Hotel 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vita Plus Corporation 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blm Group USA Corp 117 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. 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.