Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers · Florida

Chiquita Brands L.L.C

Fort Lauderdale, FL · ~32 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chiquita Brands L.L.C runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Chiquita Brands L.L.C: 2.4 TCR = 110% of Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chiquita Brands L.L.C safety composite

Chiquita Brands L.L.C scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 89% 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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

Chiquita Brands L.L.C: 0.0 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Chiquita Brands L.L.C's TCR rose 7.3 from 0.0 in 2019 to 7.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Fort Lauderdale, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.4 · 110% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/45
  • PHOTO MVE, LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MVE, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chiquita Brands L.L.C in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chiquita Brands L.L.C averages 2.4 TCR (110% 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

Chiquita Brands L.L.C TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=7.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Chiquita Brands L.L.C falls in its industry

369 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholes establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 45 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholes employers in Florida.

Chiquita Brands L.L.C (32 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Chiquita Brands L.L.C
Chiquita Brands L.L.C (32 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Chiquita Brands L.L.C has fewer employees than the Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers median and a lower 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
2021 7.3 0.0 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · FL · Fort Lauderdale

369 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 374 employers in Fort Lauderdale, 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 MVE, LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sun and Sands Enterprises, LLC dba Prime Time International 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eagle Eye Farms Blackfoot 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alta Fresh LLC, DBA Chelan Fresh 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hunt Bros Service 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tamiami Citrus, LLC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Osprey Energy Center 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midulla Generating Station 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spirit Airlines - FLL 3,426 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holy Cross Long Term Care Inc 2,979 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Lauderdale (FLL) 2,703 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hotwire Communications - Cypress 953 FTE
NAT-TCR Limbach - Mid-Atlantic 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR General Surgery 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR IKONICS Commonwealth Ave 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Conestoga Landfill 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rinchem Company, Inc., CSC 14 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ram Tool Construction Supply Company - Memphis 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ram Tool Construction Supply Company - Chicago 32 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.