Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers · New York

Cavallaro Foods

Syracuse, NY · ~311 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cavallaro Foods runs at 251% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Cavallaro Foods: 5.5 TCR = 251% of Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cavallaro Foods safety composite

Cavallaro Foods scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

Cavallaro Foods held a steady TCR band

Cavallaro Foods's TCR held near 0.3 from 4.8 in 2016 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.8 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=6.1 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=5.8 · 2023=5.0 · 2024=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Syracuse, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.5 · 251% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #32/72
  • PHOTO Lebanon Distribution…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 130 inj
  • SIZE ~311 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lebanon Distribution Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cavallaro Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cavallaro Foods averages 5.5 TCR (251% of the Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Cavallaro Foods TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=6.1 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=5.8 · 2023=5 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Cavallaro Foods falls in its industry

1,651 Groceries, general-line, merch establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 72 Groceries, general-line, merch employers in New York.

Cavallaro Foods (311 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cavallaro Foods
Cavallaro Foods (311 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Cavallaro Foods has more employees than the Groceries, general-line, merchant wholes median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2024 5.1 1.4 15 0 0
2023 5.0 3.1 16 0 0
2021 5.8 3.6 18 0 0
2020 7.5 6.2 24 0 0
2019 5.5 3.5 17 0 0
2018 6.1 2.7 18 0 0
2017 4.3 3.6 11 1 0
2016 4.8 3.9 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · NY · Syracuse

1,651 Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 436 employers in Syracuse, NY · 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 Lebanon Distribution Center 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vistar Illinois - 1005 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Restaurant Depot 450 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greco and Sons Concord Foods So Cal Ontario 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Schuler-Haas Electric Corp. 311 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arvos Ljungstrom LLC 311 FTE
STATE-SIZE Onondaga 311 FTE
STATE-SIZE LGA - Airport United Airlines Offices 311 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's Health 4,299 FTE
CITY-NEAR SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 3,970 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center 3,720 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center-SJH-NY 2,803 FTE
NAT-TCR Benton County Corrections 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Harold White Lumber, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Car Sound Exhaust Systems 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Thermal Engineering of Arizona 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Portacool, LLC 311 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milwaukee Valve Company LLC - Prairie du Sac - NIBCO 311 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spectrum Intermediate, LLC 311 FTE
NAT-SIZE DuPont Teijin Films 311 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: 2024, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.