Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers · Florida

Chiquita Fresh North America- PEV

Ft Lauderdale, FL · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chiquita Fresh North America- PEV runs at 324% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Chiquita Fresh North America- PEV: 7.1 TCR = 324% of Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chiquita Fresh North America- PEV safety composite

Chiquita Fresh North America- PEV scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

Chiquita Fresh North America- PEV held a steady TCR band

Chiquita Fresh North America- PEV's TCR held near 0.0 from 7.1 in 2023 to 7.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.1 · 2024=7.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 324% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #33/45
  • PHOTO Pete Pappas & Sons, …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pete Pappas & Sons, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chiquita Fresh North America- PEV in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chiquita Fresh North America- PEV averages 7.1 TCR (324% 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 Fresh North America- PEV TCR series: 2023=7.1 · 2024=7.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Chiquita Fresh North America- PEV falls in its industry

369 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholes establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #33 safest of 45 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholes employers in Florida.

Chiquita Fresh North America- PEV (27 employees, TCR 7.1) 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 Fresh North America- PEV
Chiquita Fresh North America- PEV (27 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Chiquita Fresh North America- PEV 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
2024 7.1 7.1 1 1 0
2023 7.1 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · FL · Ft Lauderdale

369 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 76 employers in Ft 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 Pete Pappas & Sons, Inc 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agripack 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Duck Delivery Produce of Washington, Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7175_16277 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE C. ELTON CREWS, INC. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Treesap Farms LLC - Homestead 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Treesap Farms LLC - Oasis 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cocoa Sod 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR FLL Fort Lauderdale Airport 2,081 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-224 777 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Florida 314 FTE
CITY-NEAR Galleria 761 281 FTE
NAT-TCR Iap Inc. 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Residence Inn Marriott Milpitas 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Snyder Manufacturing Inc. 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Portland OR 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Moxie Services Austin LLC 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stonestreet Winery 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Usalco Fairfield Plant 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town of Leland: Fire Station 53 27 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.

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