Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Loffredo Fresh Foods

Des Moines, IA · ~116 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Loffredo Fresh Foods runs at 280% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Loffredo Fresh Foods: 6.2 TCR = 280% of Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Loffredo Fresh Foods safety composite

Loffredo Fresh Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Loffredo Fresh Foods: 6.8 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2023

Loffredo Fresh Foods's TCR rose 0.5 from 6.8 in 2021 to 7.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.2 · 280% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO 7175_16267
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~116 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 7175_16267 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Loffredo Fresh Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Loffredo Fresh Foods averages 6.2 TCR (280% of the Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Loffredo Fresh Foods TCR series: 2021=6.8 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=7.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Loffredo Fresh Foods falls in its industry

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b employers in Iowa.

Loffredo Fresh Foods (116 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Loffredo Fresh Foods
Loffredo Fresh Foods (116 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Loffredo Fresh Foods has more employees than the Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries mer median and a higher 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2023 7.3 7.3 7 0 0
2022 4.4 3.5 5 0 0
2021 6.8 4.2 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · IA · Des Moines

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 525 employers in Des Moines, IA · 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 7175_16267 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR PP3 - Cleveland 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frank Gargiulo & Son, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MC Produce, LLC dba McCartney Produce 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Knife River Midwest 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Camso Manufacturing USA, Ltd. 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hydrite - Waterloo IA 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-1712 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 6,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines 4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Des Moines 3,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Methodist Hospital 3,495 FTE
NAT-TCR Uptown/157 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Denver Store 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Diversified Foundations, LLC (DBA) Diversified Excavation 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Xtreme Elements LLC 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlanta Corporate Office 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Horsburgh & Scott Co. - Main Plant 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand Traverse Container-GR 116 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.