Cream merchant wholesalers · New Jersey

Diaco Food Service

Paterson, NJ · ~33 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Diaco Food Service runs at 435% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cream merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Diaco Food Service: 9.6 TCR = 435% of Cream merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Diaco Food Service safety composite

Diaco Food Service scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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%).

Diaco Food Service held a steady TCR band

Diaco Food Service's TCR held near 0.1 from 9.8 in 2019 to 9.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 26.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=9.8 · 2020=11.1 · 2021=26.7 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=9.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424430 · Paterson, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 435% of ind

  • DART 9.8 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO Pocono Mountain Dair…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pocono Mountain Dairies - Blakeslee (0.0 TCR gap)

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Diaco Food Service in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Diaco Food Service averages 9.6 TCR (435% of the Cream merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Diaco Food Service TCR series: 2019=9.8 · 2020=11.1 · 2021=26.7 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=9.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Diaco Food Service falls in its industry

231 Cream merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Cream merchant wholesalers employers in New Jersey.

Diaco Food Service (33 employees, TCR 9.6) 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 Diaco Food Service
Diaco Food Service (33 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Diaco Food Service has fewer employees than the Cream merchant wholesalers 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 9.8 9.8 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 26.7 26.7 5 0 0
2020 11.1 11.1 2 0 0
2019 9.8 9.8 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424430 · NJ · Paterson

231 Cream merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 76 employers in Paterson, NJ · 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 Pocono Mountain Dairies - Blakeslee 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Suiza - Chester 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mayfield - Marietta 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Cheese Co., Inc. - Reno, NV 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ayr Wellness LLC - Woodbridge 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Jersey Gas: Cape May 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edison Office 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wade Ray & Associates Construction, Inc. 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6164-PATERSON 4,413 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's Health & Med Center 4,220 FTE
CITY-NEAR Preakness Healthcare Center 421 FTE
CITY-NEAR J&K Ingredients LLC 323 FTE
NAT-TCR Park Maintenance 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Merit Mechanical, Inc. 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Heating & Cooling Two, Inc. 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lifestyle Support Services, Inc. 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Newtech Installation USA Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Van Horn Construction Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Calportland Construction - Administration 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nelson Young Lumber Company 33 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, 2022, 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.