Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers · New York

James Desiderio Wholesale Fruit and Produce

Name: James Desiderio Wholesale Fruit and Produce Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Buffalo, NY · ~130 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.6
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

James Desiderio Wholesale Fruit and Produce runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

James Desiderio Wholesale Fruit and Produce: 2.6 TCR = 116% of Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

James Desiderio Wholesale Fruit and Produce safety composite

James Desiderio Wholesale Fruit and Produce scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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

−3.3

2016→2019

James Desiderio Wholesale Fruit and Produce injury rate improved

James Desiderio Wholesale Fruit and Produce's TCR fell 3.3 from 3.3 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.3 · 2017=4.2 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 116% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #2/7
PHOTO Segovia Produce LTD
BOOK 4y book
INJ 12 inj
SIZE ~130 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Segovia Produce LTD (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · New York employers → · Look up another →

Ole Tyme Produ

2.7
This site

2.6
Calavo

2.6
Segovia Produc

2.5
Sun and Sands

2.4

What this shows James Desiderio Wholesale Fruit and Produce averages 2.6 TCR (116% of the Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

James Desiderio Wholesale Fruit and Produce TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2017=4.2 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=0 · BLS 2.2

Where James Desiderio Wholesale Fruit and Produce falls in its industry

369 Produce, fresh, merchant whole establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Produce, fresh, merchant whole employers in New York.

James Desiderio Wholesale Fruit and Produce (130 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

James Desiderio Wholesale Fruit and Produce has more employees than the Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2019	0.0	0.0	0
2018	2.7	2.7	3
2017	4.2	2.5	5
2016	3.3	2.5	4

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · NY · Buffalo

369 Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 532 employers in Buffalo, NY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Segovia Produce LTD	AUSTIN, TX	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Calavo	CONLEY, GA	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sun and Sands Enterprises, LLC dba Prime Time International	COACHELLA, CA	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ole Tyme Produce Inc.	SAINT CHARLES, MO	2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Hi-Lite Airfield Services LLC	ADAMS CENTER	130 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Ajay Glass Co.	CANANDAIGUA	130 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Team Electric Inc.	NEW YORK	130 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Able Rigging Contractors, LLC.	DEER PARK	130 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Buffalo General Hospital	Buffalo	3,556 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercy Hospital of Buffalo	Buffalo	2,379 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WNY Independent Living, Inc.	Buffalo	1,988 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Kaleida Health Oishei Childrens Hospital	Buffalo	1,765 FTE
NAT-TCR	#53 Art Van Ann Arbor	Ann Arbor, MI	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	ADK Electric	Vancouver, WA	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	La-Z-Boy Arkansas	Siloam Springs, AR	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Minnesota Correctional Facility, Lino Lakes	Lino Lakes, MN	2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Midco Commercial	New Brunswick, NJ	130 FTE
NAT-SIZE	HealthCare Options, Inc.	Attleboro, MA	130 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Magnolia Manor Inman	Inman, SC	130 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Rempac Foam LLC	Lumberton, NC	130 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.