General Freight Trucking Local · Delaware

Chiquita (Denwl)

New Castle, DE · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chiquita (Denwl) runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General Freight Trucking Local workplace, earning a grade D.

Chiquita (Denwl): 6.7 TCR = 148% of General Freight Trucking Local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chiquita (Denwl) safety composite

Chiquita (Denwl) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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 (Denwl): 4.2 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2018

Chiquita (Denwl)'s TCR rose 4.9 from 4.2 in 2017 to 9.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · New Castle, DE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.7 · 148% of ind

  • DART 9.1 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Sharp Transit of Roy…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sharp Transit of Royal Palm Beach (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chiquita (Denwl) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chiquita (Denwl) averages 6.7 TCR (148% of the General Freight Trucking Local BLS benchmark).

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

Chiquita (Denwl) TCR series: 2017=4.2 · 2018=9.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Chiquita (Denwl) falls in its industry

2,784 General Freight Trucking Local establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Delaware alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 General Freight Trucking Local employers in Delaware.

Chiquita (Denwl) (25 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Chiquita (Denwl)
Chiquita (Denwl) (25 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Chiquita (Denwl) has fewer employees than the General Freight Trucking Local median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2018 9.1 9.1 2 0 0
2017 4.2 4.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · DE · New Castle

2,784 General Freight Trucking Local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,487 rated employers in Delaware with headcount on file · 192 employers in New Castle, DE · 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 Sharp Transit of Royal Palm Beach 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR GJT 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hanson Trucking Inc 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pace Runners, Inc. 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE MASTERCRAFTERS, INC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE DRB Group Eastern Shore, LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE EnergyLink 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE 104186 - Dewey Beach Bridges 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEL0000070 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - OUTLET 1,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - ILG1 864 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - PHL1 646 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEL0000050 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - WAREHOU 633 FTE
NAT-TCR Tallahassee Center (Fltal) 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Green Bay Home Care 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Cohber Press, Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Jet.com FC-6923 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Santa Rosa (Castr) 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Camden (Arcam) 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Eagle #3045 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Portland (Mesca) 25 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.