General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Maine

Dennis Paper & Food Service

Hampden, ME · ~152 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dennis Paper & Food Service runs at 731% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Dennis Paper & Food Service: 16.1 TCR = 731% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dennis Paper & Food Service safety composite

Dennis Paper & Food Service scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 23.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Dennis Paper & Food Service: 11.9 → 23.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 23.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.46× in 2021

Dennis Paper & Food Service's TCR rose 11.6 from 11.9 in 2016 to 23.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Hampden, ME ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 16.1 · 731% of ind

  • DART 23.5 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Sysco Spokane
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 130 inj
  • SIZE ~152 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sysco Spokane (0.1 TCR gap)

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Dennis Paper & Food Service in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dennis Paper & Food Service averages 16.1 TCR (731% of the General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Dennis Paper & Food Service TCR series: 2016=11.9 · 2017=14.3 · 2018=11.5 · 2020=19.2 · 2021=23.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Dennis Paper & Food Service falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maine alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 General-line groceries merchan employers in Maine.

Dennis Paper & Food Service (152 employees, TCR 16.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dennis Paper & Food Service
Dennis Paper & Food Service (152 employees, TCR 16.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Dennis Paper & Food Service has fewer employees than the General-line groceries merchant wholesal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 23.5 23.5 40 0 0
2020 19.2 16.1 31 0 0
2018 11.5 10.9 19 0 0
2017 14.3 8.1 23 0 0
2016 11.9 8.4 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · ME · Hampden

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 25 employers in Hampden, ME · 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 Sysco Spokane 16.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Littleton Consumer Cooperative 16.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CHEFSTORE Bend 515 16.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Erie Logistics 16.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE WPF HOLDCO LLC 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8220 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northern Light Cardiology 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE JS McCarthy Printers 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dennis Food Service 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR 220355-EASTERN ME P&DC 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR EASTERN MAINE_1441078 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Versant Power Hampden Operations Center 155 FTE
NAT-TCR Briarfield Manor 16.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilaire Rehab and Nursing 16.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Town of Rocky Hill - RHPD 16.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Horizon Moving & Logistics 16.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Group A 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE SLC - Ground Ops 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE DuPont Electronics Microcircuits Ind.,Ltd. 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Civil Mechanical Clute 152 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.