DPI Specialty Foods - West
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ONTARIO, CA | General-line groceries merchant wholesalers
~516 avg employees | 5 years of OSHA data
DPI Specialty Foods - West has an average TCR of 4.1, which is 185% of the industry average (2.2) for General-line groceries merchant wholesalers. This is worse than average.
Safety Insights for DPI Specialty Foods - West
DPI Specialty Foods - West operates an establishment with approximately 516 full-time equivalent workers in ONTARIO, CA, classified under the General-line groceries merchant wholesalers industry (NAICS 424410). Across 5 years of mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reporting, this employer has accumulated 115 recordable injuries, 11 occupational illnesses, and 1 workplace fatality. The average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.1 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year provides the anchor metric for the D letter grade (Poor Safety Record).
Benchmarked against the Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average of 2.2 for General-line groceries merchant wholesalers, DPI Specialty Foods - West's workforce experiences 185% of the typical injury burden. This ratio matters because TCR already normalizes for hours worked — a 200,000-hour exposure base equals roughly 100 full-time workers — so establishments with very different headcounts can be compared directly. A TCR above the benchmark flags a higher-than-typical risk profile for jobseekers, insurers, and enforcement agencies to examine.
Multi-year trend analysis is the single most reliable signal here: a one-year spike could reflect a single severe event, whereas sustained elevation across 5 reporting cycles points to systemic hazard exposure. Readers evaluating DPI Specialty Foods - West as an employer, contractor, investment, or regulatory target should examine the yearly DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred), the fatality count of 1, and any year-over-year deterioration shown in the table below. All figures come directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries — there is no modeling, estimation, or third-party adjustment layered on top of the government data.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from DPI Specialty Foods - West's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source — name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor — OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 424410 — General-line groceries merchant wholesalers.
DART Rate — Transparent Calculation (2021)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
33 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 1,421,228 hours worked = 4.64 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904 — OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context — Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| DPI Specialty Foods - West (this establishment) | 4.08 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 5-year avg |
| Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers industry avg | 2.20 | BLS IIF, NAICS 424410 |
| California state avg (all industries) | 58.88 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics — Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by DPI Specialty Foods - West to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2021: 34 reportable incidents · 34 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 38 reportable incidents · 27 injuries, 10 illnesses, 1 fatality — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 18 reportable incidents · 18 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 15 reportable incidents · 14 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 22 reportable incidents · 22 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) — inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 34 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 5.1 | 3.6 | 27 | 10 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 3.0 | 2.2 | 14 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017 | 4.7 | 3.8 | 22 | 0 | 0 |
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