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

Cash-Wa Distributing

Kearney, NE · ~329 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cash-Wa Distributing runs at 142% 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: 3.1 TCR = 142% of Frozen foods, packaged (except dairy products), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cash-Wa Distributing safety composite

Cash-Wa Distributing scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−0.4

2019→2020

Cash-Wa Distributing injury rate improved

Cash-Wa Distributing's TCR fell 0.4 from 3.3 in 2019 to 3.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.3 · 2020=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424420 · Kearney, NE ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.1 · 142% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK P80
  • PHOTO Sherwood Foods-Florida
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~329 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sherwood Foods-Florida (0.1 TCR gap)

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Cash-Wa Distributing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cash-Wa Distributing averages 3.1 TCR (142% 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 TCR series: 2019=3.3 · 2020=3 · BLS 2.2

Where Cash-Wa Distributing falls in its industry

134 Frozen foods, packaged (except establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Cash-Wa Distributing (329 employees, TCR 3.1) 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
Cash-Wa Distributing (329 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 7.4

Cash-Wa Distributing 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
2020 3.0 1.5 10 0 0
2019 3.3 2.4 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424420 · NE · Kearney

134 Frozen foods, packaged (except dairy products), merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 100 employers in Kearney, NE · 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 Sherwood Foods-Florida 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amigos Meat 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PILGRIMS MT PLESANT PPDC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cashwa Distributing 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lindsay Irrigation Solutions, LLC 328 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodhouse Ford Chrysler 328 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nelnet - Omaha NDS 330 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tractor Supply Company Distribution Center 0399 331 FTE
CITY-NEAR Filtration : Kearney 1,211 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kearney Facility 1,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 818 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-26100001-261001 791 FTE
NAT-TCR Meridian Brick-Elgin Plant-2 Meridian 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Indian Motorcycle Sturgis 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Highland Springs 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Schmid Mechanical 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Treehouse Foods, Lancaster OH 329 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Crystal Sugar Company Hillsboro Factory 329 FTE
NAT-SIZE Distribution Center - W1 329 FTE
NAT-SIZE Performance Maryland - 0640 329 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.

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