General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

J Polep Distribution Services

Chicopee, MA · ~686 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

J Polep Distribution Services runs at 351% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

J Polep Distribution Services: 7.7 TCR = 351% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J Polep Distribution Services safety composite

J Polep Distribution Services scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.5

2016→2020

J Polep Distribution Services injury rate improved

J Polep Distribution Services's TCR fell 3.5 from 7.2 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.2 · 2017=10.3 · 2018=9.3 · 2019=8.2 · 2020=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Chicopee, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 351% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #17/35
  • PHOTO AWG - PEARL RIVER
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 284 inj
  • SIZE ~686 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AWG - PEARL RIVER (0.0 TCR gap)

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J Polep Distribution Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows J Polep Distribution Services averages 7.7 TCR (351% 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

J Polep Distribution Services TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2017=10.3 · 2018=9.3 · 2019=8.2 · 2020=3.7 · BLS 2.2

Where J Polep Distribution Services falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 35 General-line groceries merchan employers in Massachusetts.

J Polep Distribution Services (686 employees, TCR 7.7) 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 J Polep Distribution Services
J Polep Distribution Services (686 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

J Polep Distribution Services has more 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
2020 3.7 3.3 29 0 0
2019 8.2 7.7 70 0 0
2018 9.3 8.9 70 0 0
2017 10.3 9.3 69 0 0
2016 7.2 6.7 46 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · MA · Chicopee

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 104 employers in Chicopee, MA · 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 AWG - PEARL RIVER 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia SC 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Custom Distribution Albuquerque 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Williams Institutional Foods, Inc. 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE SMOC 686 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yankee Candle Manufacturing 687 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quiet Logistics 688 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lacerta Group, LLC - 11 Norfolk Rd. 689 FTE
CITY-NEAR MA-04 4,429 FTE
CITY-NEAR Consumer Product Distributors LLC dba J Polep Distribution Services 774 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5278 526 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5278 468 FTE
NAT-TCR Krenz & Company, Inc 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sxb 53 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR DGS Aviation Services : SGF - Springfield 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Ecology, Inc-Columbia 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE FL 15800 SW 25th Street Miramar 686 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zenith Logistics Louisville 686 FTE
NAT-SIZE MidMichigan Physician's Group 686 FTE
NAT-SIZE S&D Coffee & Tea-Main Operations 686 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.