Packaged Frozen Food Merchant Wholesalers · South Dakota

Cashwa Distributing

Name: Cashwa Distributing Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Aberdeen, SD · ~54 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.6
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Cashwa Distributing runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Packaged Frozen Food Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Cashwa Distributing: 2.6 TCR = 116% of Packaged Frozen Food Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cashwa Distributing safety composite

Cashwa Distributing scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers
DART rate: B 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

Cashwa Distributing: 1.7 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2017

Cashwa Distributing's TCR rose 1.8 from 1.7 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 116% of ind

DART 1.7 DART
RANK P81
PHOTO PILGRIMS MT PLESANT …
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PILGRIMS MT PLESANT PPDC (0.3 TCR gap)

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PILGRIMS MT PL

2.8
This site

2.6
Pro Food Syste

2.3
Boston Gourmet

2.3
Baker's Best

2.3

What this shows Cashwa Distributing averages 2.6 TCR (116% of the Packaged Frozen Food Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Cashwa Distributing TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2017=3.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Cashwa Distributing falls in its industry

134 Packaged Frozen Food Merchant establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.4.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Cashwa Distributing (54 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 7.4

Cashwa Distributing has fewer employees than the Packaged Frozen Food Merchant Wholesaler 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
2017	3.4	1.7	2	0	0
2016	1.7	1.7	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424420 · SD · Aberdeen

134 Packaged Frozen Food 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	PILGRIMS MT PLESANT PPDC	PITTSBURG, TX	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pro Food Systems, Inc.	HOLTS SUMMIT, MO	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Boston Gourmet Chefs, Inc.	FRAMINGHAM, MA	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Baker's Best	HATFIELD, PA	2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Component Manufacturing Company - Plant 2	SIOUX FALLS,	54 FTE
STATE-SIZE	POET Research Center	SCOTLAND	54 FTE
STATE-SIZE	TrueNorth Steel-Rapid Ciy	RAPID CITY	54 FTE
STATE-SIZE	H-S Precision, Inc.	RAPID CITY	54 FTE
CITY-NEAR	New Angus, LLC dba DemKota Ranch Beef	Aberdeen	761 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Avera St. Luke's Hospital	Aberdeen	758 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Aberdeen	Aberdeen	716 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 1520	Aberdeen	397 FTE
NAT-TCR	Giant 242	Alexandria, VA	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Liverpool Office	Liverpool, NY	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Devon Energy Corporation - Cresson	Cresson, TX	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	FedEx Supply Chain	Four Oaks, NC	2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Greece Ambulance	Rochester, NY	54 FTE
NAT-SIZE	CORE Construction Services of Illinois, Inc.	Morton, IL	54 FTE
NAT-SIZE	N and R of Sweet Springs Inc	Sweet Springs, MO	54 FTE
NAT-SIZE	N and R of California West LLC	California, MO	54 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: 2017, 2016. 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.