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

Cash-Wa Distributing Aberdeen

Aberdeen, SD · ~50 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cash-Wa Distributing Aberdeen runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Frozen foods, packaged (except dairy products), merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Cash-Wa Distributing Aberdeen: 4.3 TCR = 193% of Frozen foods, packaged (except dairy products), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cash-Wa Distributing Aberdeen safety composite

Cash-Wa Distributing Aberdeen scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.22 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.1

2019→2020

Cash-Wa Distributing Aberdeen injury rate improved

Cash-Wa Distributing Aberdeen's TCR fell 4.1 from 6.3 in 2019 to 2.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.3 · 2020=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424420 · Aberdeen, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 193% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK P72
  • PHOTO MI-SFIEL01-Southfiel…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MI-SFIEL01-Southfield - MI - Store (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cash-Wa Distributing Aberdeen in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cash-Wa Distributing Aberdeen averages 4.3 TCR (193% 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

Cash-Wa Distributing Aberdeen TCR series: 2019=6.3 · 2020=2.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Cash-Wa Distributing Aberdeen falls in its industry

134 Frozen foods, packaged (except establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Cash-Wa Distributing Aberdeen (50 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 Cash-Wa Distributing Aberdeen
Cash-Wa Distributing Aberdeen (50 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 7.4

Cash-Wa Distributing Aberdeen has fewer 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
2020 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2019 6.3 1.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424420 · SD · Aberdeen

134 Frozen foods, packaged (except dairy products), merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 86 employers in Aberdeen, SD · 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 MI-SFIEL01-Southfield - MI - Store 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Samuels and Son Seafood South Coast, LLC 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lentz Milling Company 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Florida Foods Internatinal Inc 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mustang Seeds, Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jensen Rock & Sand Aberdeen 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sterling Technology 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michael Foods - NPE Flandreau 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Angus, LLC dba DemKota Ranch Beef 761 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera St. Luke's Hospital 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aberdeen 716 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1520 397 FTE
NAT-TCR High School 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy Health Allen Hospital 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR RIU - Residence Inn Uptown 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR MA.NORTH.11 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Joseph Companies (IQHC) Neillsville 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE InHarvest, Inc. 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE C.T. Purcell Inc. 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Penny Lane Main Facility 50 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.