General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Indiana

J. Winkler & Sons

Dale, IN · ~149 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

J. Winkler & Sons runs at 308% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

J. Winkler & Sons: 6.8 TCR = 308% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J. Winkler & Sons safety composite

J. Winkler & Sons scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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. Winkler & Sons: 6.0 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2023

J. Winkler & Sons's TCR rose 1.8 from 6.0 in 2017 to 7.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Dale, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 308% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #17/23
  • PHOTO Wood Fruitticher Gro…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~149 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wood Fruitticher Grocery Company, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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J. Winkler & Sons in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows J. Winkler & Sons averages 6.8 TCR (308% 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. Winkler & Sons TCR series: 2017=6 · 2021=6.5 · 2023=7.8 · BLS 2.2

Where J. Winkler & Sons falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 23 General-line groceries merchan employers in Indiana.

J. Winkler & Sons (149 employees, TCR 6.8) 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. Winkler & Sons
J. Winkler & Sons (149 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

J. Winkler & Sons 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
2023 7.8 4.7 10 0 0
2021 6.5 5.2 10 0 0
2017 6.0 4.2 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · IN · Dale

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 7 employers in Dale, IN · 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 Wood Fruitticher Grocery Company, Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Francisco Branch 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sysco Alaska, Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chetak New York 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE FXI, Inc 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indianapolis Zionsville 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bway Valparaiso 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE TASUS Corporation (Indiana) 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spencer Industries Incorporated 210 FTE
CITY-NEAR Denny's Store #390 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Willowdale Village 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Superior Ag Resources Dale Feed Mill 44 FTE
NAT-TCR Berkshire Custom Coating, Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ctp - Whiteman Afb, Mo 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Village at Gleannloch Farms 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR American Red Cross - 1 Westport Ct 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Case Goods/Corp Office/Upholstery 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE LMI - Washington 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gregg Drilling 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carmel Valley Manor 149 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: 2023, 2021, 2017. 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.