DAIRY DISTRIBUTION · Pennsylvania

Dfa Distributing North - Erie

Erie, PA · ~22 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dfa Distributing North - Erie runs at 458% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical DAIRY DISTRIBUTION workplace, earning a grade F.

Dfa Distributing North - Erie: 10.1 TCR = 458% of DAIRY DISTRIBUTION BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dfa Distributing North - Erie safety composite

Dfa Distributing North - Erie 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 19.61 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

Dfa Distributing North - Erie: 10.6 → 19.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 19.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.95× in 2024

Dfa Distributing North - Erie's TCR rose 9.0 from 10.6 in 2021 to 19.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424430 · Erie, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 458% of ind

  • DART 19.6 DART
  • RANK #10/16
  • PHOTO Hill Country Dairies…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hill Country Dairies - Corpus Chrisiti Branch (0.1 TCR gap)

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Dfa Distributing North - Erie in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dfa Distributing North - Erie averages 10.1 TCR (458% of the DAIRY DISTRIBUTION BLS benchmark).

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

Dfa Distributing North - Erie TCR series: 2021=10.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=19.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Dfa Distributing North - Erie falls in its industry

231 DAIRY DISTRIBUTION establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 16 DAIRY DISTRIBUTION employers in Pennsylvania.

Dfa Distributing North - Erie (22 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dfa Distributing North - Erie
Dfa Distributing North - Erie (22 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Dfa Distributing North - Erie has fewer employees than the DAIRY DISTRIBUTION median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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 19.6 19.6 4 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 10.6 10.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424430 · PA · Erie

231 DAIRY DISTRIBUTION employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 473 employers in Erie, PA · 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 Hill Country Dairies - Corpus Chrisiti Branch 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6905_16890 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFA DISTRIBUTING NORTH - BURLINGTON NJ 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFA DISTRIBUTING NORTH - SHARPSVILLE PA 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dawson's Orchards 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kuhn Orchards, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Giorgi Mushroom Farm 3 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Hope 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Erie, PA 5,403 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Hamot 2,675 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wabtec-Erie 2,141 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAINT VINCENT HOSPITAL 2,135 FTE
NAT-TCR Orion Pax 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Davidson Transit Organization 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Aurora Bickford 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Northeast Range School 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Naumes, Inc. Corporate Office 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wooden Shoe Logistics LLC 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Judson University 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Renal Home Patient - P and F (Tampa FL USA - P and F) 22 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, 2021. 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.