Frozen foods, packaged (except dairy products), merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Caruso Inc

Cincinnati, OH · ~111 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Caruso Inc runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Frozen foods, packaged (except dairy products), merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Caruso Inc: 1.6 TCR = 72% of Frozen foods, packaged (except dairy products), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Caruso Inc safety composite

Caruso Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Caruso Inc: 0.0 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.45× in 2023

Caruso Inc's TCR rose 2.3 from 0.0 in 2019 to 2.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424420 · Cincinnati, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 72% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #2/8
  • PHOTO Soft Stuff
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Soft Stuff (0.0 TCR gap)

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Caruso Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Caruso Inc averages 1.6 TCR (72% of the Frozen foods, packaged (except dairy products), merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Caruso Inc TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0.9 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=2.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Caruso Inc falls in its industry

134 Frozen foods, packaged (except establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 8 Frozen foods, packaged (except employers in Ohio.

Caruso Inc (111 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 7.4 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Caruso Inc
Caruso Inc (111 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 7.4

Caruso Inc has more employees than the Frozen foods, packaged (except dairy pro median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.4. 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 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2022 3.2 2.5 5 0 0
2020 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424420 · OH · Cincinnati

134 Frozen foods, packaged (except dairy products), merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,513 employers in Cincinnati, OH · 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 Soft Stuff 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Natchitoches Meat Pies 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kool Ice & Seafood 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Worth 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Acorn Farms - Zanesville 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Canton Estrn Reg Ofc 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE 902-NiSource-Columbus OH-Marble Cliff 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE KS Energy Services (Cincinnati) 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center 17,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Operations 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Evendale, OH 7,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain Evendale OH 6,400 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4486 Westminster, CO 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR St. George 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Williams, RDM 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Flach Industries Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chase River Road ICES 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mi-Kee-Tro Metal Mfg. 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilex Poly - Richmond 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trucchi's Supermarket #2 111 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, 2020, 2019. 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.