Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers · Virginia

Cavalier Produce

Louisa, VA · ~68 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cavalier Produce runs at 496% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Cavalier Produce: 10.9 TCR = 496% of Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cavalier Produce safety composite

Cavalier Produce scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−12.8

2021→2023

Cavalier Produce injury rate improved

Cavalier Produce's TCR fell 12.8 from 17.0 in 2021 to 4.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 17.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=17.0 · 2022=11.6 · 2023=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Louisa, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 496% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Hearn Kirkwood
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hearn Kirkwood (0.1 TCR gap)

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Cavalier Produce in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cavalier Produce averages 10.9 TCR (496% of the Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Cavalier Produce TCR series: 2021=17 · 2022=11.6 · 2023=4.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Cavalier Produce falls in its industry

369 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholes establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholes employers in Virginia.

Cavalier Produce (68 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cavalier Produce
Cavalier Produce (68 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Cavalier Produce has fewer employees than the Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 4.1 4.1 3 0 0
2022 11.6 10.2 8 0 0
2021 17.0 12.7 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · VA · Louisa

369 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 23 employers in Louisa, VA · 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 Hearn Kirkwood 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7175_16270 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR P&P Transportation (KY DOCK) 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cut Fresh 11.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mecklenburg Electric Chase City District 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE SERVPRO of Roanoke, Montgomery & Pulaski Counties 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Point VA Truss 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tridim Filter Louisa 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR Louisa Health and Rehabilitiation Center 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR 00484 - STORE # 484 LOUISA 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR Louisa Care Center LLC 80 FTE
NAT-TCR 214 Pineville (S. Charlotte) 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Beacon Hotel 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR McCoys Building Supply-Bryan 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Windsor Manor Rehabilitation Center of Concord 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Joyce Manufacturing Company 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newport 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pro-Fab LLC 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jeff Davis Living Center, LLC 68 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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