General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Georgia

Ira Higdon Grocery Company Cairo

Cairo, GA · ~59 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ira Higdon Grocery Company Cairo runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Ira Higdon Grocery Company Cairo: 3.9 TCR = 175% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ira Higdon Grocery Company Cairo safety composite

Ira Higdon Grocery Company Cairo scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Ira Higdon Grocery Company Cairo: 3.5 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.73× in 2021

Ira Higdon Grocery Company Cairo's TCR rose 3.2 from 3.5 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Cairo, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.9 · 175% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #18/51
  • PHOTO The Chefs' Warehouse…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Chefs' Warehouse Florida, LLC, Opa-Locka, FL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ira Higdon Grocery Company Cairo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ira Higdon Grocery Company Cairo averages 3.9 TCR (175% 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

Ira Higdon Grocery Company Cairo TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2017=1.4 · 2021=6.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Ira Higdon Grocery Company Cairo falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 51 General-line groceries merchan employers in Georgia.

Ira Higdon Grocery Company Cairo (59 employees, TCR 3.9) 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 Ira Higdon Grocery Company Cairo
Ira Higdon Grocery Company Cairo (59 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Ira Higdon Grocery Company Cairo has fewer employees than the General-line groceries merchant wholesal median and a lower 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 6.7 6.7 4 0 0
2017 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2016 3.5 1.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · GA · Cairo

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 24 employers in Cairo, GA · 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 The Chefs' Warehouse Florida, LLC, Opa-Locka, FL 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Performance Little Rock - 0690 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Restaurant Depot 544 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR GlacierPoint Jamaica 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE SolAmerica Energy 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crawford Grading, Inc. 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Benton Georgia LLC SP 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE ANS:ANMAR - ANMAR - Marietta, GA 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jtekt-Cairo Plant / Koyo Bearing LLC 333 FTE
CITY-NEAR Woodhaven Furniture Industries - Cairo 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR ROBERT BEARDEN INC. 274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foodservice Powell - 0725 252 FTE
NAT-TCR Royal Plastics Inc 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Banner Del E Webb Medical Center EM 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR VRH 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Wastewater Division 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Phoenix Industries 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE A&A Midwest Rebuilders Suppliers Inc 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southwood 8849 E Lincoln Facility 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berkots Office/Warehouse 59 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.