General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Connecticut

J Polep Startford

Stratford, CT · ~19 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

J Polep Startford runs at 877% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

J Polep Startford: 19.3 TCR = 877% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J Polep Startford safety composite

J Polep Startford scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
D 6.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

J Polep Startford: 3.9 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 33.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.31× in 2024

J Polep Startford's TCR rose 2.1 from 3.9 in 2019 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 33.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Stratford, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 19.3 · 877% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #28/28
  • PHOTO Capitol Distributing
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Capitol Distributing (0.1 TCR gap)

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J Polep Startford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows J Polep Startford averages 19.3 TCR (877% 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 Startford TCR series: 2019=3.9 · 2022=33.9 · 2023=33.4 · 2024=6 · BLS 2.2

Where J Polep Startford falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 28 General-line groceries merchan employers in Connecticut.

J Polep Startford (19 employees, TCR 19.3) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate J Polep Startford
J Polep Startford (19 employees, TCR 19.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

J Polep Startford has fewer 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
2024 6.0 6.0 1 0 0
2023 33.4 33.4 6 0 0
2022 33.9 33.9 4 0 0
2019 3.9 3.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · CT · Stratford

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 119 employers in Stratford, CT · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Capitol Distributing 19.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 99 - McCook 19.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Foods Metro NY Division 19.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foodservice Rogers - 0557 19.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Waterford 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE City Of Meriden Water Pollution 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Babbidge 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water & Sewer - Charter Oak 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation US CT Stratford Main St (5225) 6,906 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation US CT Stratford 6900 Main St (5225) 6,665 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northeast Medical Group, Inc. 2,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northeast Medical Group - New Haven 1,612 FTE
NAT-TCR San Diego Police Department - Headquarters 19.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0708 Kalamazoo 19.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0020 LaJolla 19.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wakefield Care and Rehab. 19.3 TCR

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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.