Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage · Florida

Cheney Brothers, Inc. - Ocala Facility

Ocala, FL · ~884 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cheney Brothers, Inc. - Ocala Facility runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage workplace, earning a grade D.

Cheney Brothers, Inc. - Ocala Facility: 7.3 TCR = 126% of Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cheney Brothers, Inc. - Ocala Facility safety composite

Cheney Brothers, Inc. - Ocala Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

−2.7

2023→2024

Cheney Brothers, Inc. - Ocala Facility injury rate improved

Cheney Brothers, Inc. - Ocala Facility's TCR fell 2.7 from 8.7 in 2023 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.7 · 2024=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Ocala, FL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.3 · 126% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #43/48
  • PHOTO Fresh Guys Warehousi…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 98 inj
  • SIZE ~884 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fresh Guys Warehousing Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cheney Brothers, Inc. - Ocala Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cheney Brothers, Inc. - Ocala Facility averages 7.3 TCR (126% of the Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage BLS benchmark).

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

Cheney Brothers, Inc. - Ocala Facility TCR series: 2023=8.7 · 2024=6 · BLS 5.8

Where Cheney Brothers, Inc. - Ocala Facility falls in its industry

1,039 Refrigerated Warehousing and S establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 48 Refrigerated Warehousing and S employers in Florida.

Cheney Brothers, Inc. - Ocala Facility (884 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cheney Brothers, Inc. - Ocala Facility
Cheney Brothers, Inc. - Ocala Facility (884 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Cheney Brothers, Inc. - Ocala Facility has more employees than the Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 6.0 6.0 44 0 0
2023 8.7 8.0 54 8 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · FL · Ocala

1,039 Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 391 employers in Ocala, FL · 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 Fresh Guys Warehousing Corp 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amarillo Foreward Warehouse 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mount Pleasant - PRW 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Ice Cream Freezer 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Florida Hospital Zephyrhills 884 FTE
STATE-SIZE City Furniture - Distribution Center / Corp Office 885 FTE
STATE-SIZE Florida Concrete Services, LLC 886 FTE
STATE-SIZE Community Hospice & Palliative Care 882 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Health Ocala 2,476 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA Florida Ocala Hospital 2,064 FTE
CITY-NEAR AdventHealth Ocala 1,722 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ocala Regional Medical Center 1,342 FTE
NAT-TCR High Mountain Transport LLC 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Foodservice Powell - 0725 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR So Goodwill Klamath Falls 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Santa Monica Retail 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office 884 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buy-Lo Quality Food Stores Inc. d/b/a Piggly Wiggly 884 FTE
NAT-SIZE AGCO : Jackson 884 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franklin Energy 884 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.