Candy merchant wholesalers · New York

Chocolate Delivery Systems, Inc.

Buffalo, NY · ~71 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chocolate Delivery Systems, Inc. runs at 407% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Candy merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Chocolate Delivery Systems, Inc.: 8.9 TCR = 407% of Candy merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chocolate Delivery Systems, Inc. safety composite

Chocolate Delivery Systems, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−11.2

2019→2021

Chocolate Delivery Systems, Inc. injury rate improved

Chocolate Delivery Systems, Inc.'s TCR fell 11.2 from 14.8 in 2019 to 3.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=14.8 · 2020=8.5 · 2021=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424450 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 407% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #28/28
  • PHOTO DES MOINES PEC Emp…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DES MOINES PEC EmpWorkCtrCd 30000482 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chocolate Delivery Systems, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chocolate Delivery Systems, Inc. averages 8.9 TCR (407% of the Candy merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Chocolate Delivery Systems, Inc. TCR series: 2019=14.8 · 2020=8.5 · 2021=3.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Chocolate Delivery Systems, Inc. falls in its industry

773 Candy merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 28 Candy merchant wholesalers employers in New York.

Chocolate Delivery Systems, Inc. (71 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Chocolate Delivery Systems, Inc.
Chocolate Delivery Systems, Inc. (71 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Chocolate Delivery Systems, Inc. has more employees than the Candy merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 3.6 3.6 3 0 0
2020 8.5 5.1 5 0 0
2019 14.8 7.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424450 · NY · Buffalo

773 Candy merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 532 employers in Buffalo, 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 DES MOINES PEC EmpWorkCtrCd 30000482 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dubuque EmpWorkCtrCd 30000475 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eby-Brown Ypsilanti 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 40731 - TEXOMA MOBILE MAINT 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE PATCHOGUE-NY68 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gilbane Building Company Albany 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rodriguez Construction Group, Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iroquois Bar Corp 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buffalo General Hospital 3,556 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Hospital of Buffalo 2,379 FTE
CITY-NEAR WNY Independent Living, Inc. 1,988 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaleida Health Oishei Childrens Hospital 1,765 FTE
NAT-TCR Garage 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ten Thousand 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 565690-Mount Horeb Po 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Lake Shore Drive 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Evonik Corporation Chester 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Georgetown & Cambridge Manor 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deridder Retirement 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Case-Hill Group 71 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.