General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Mississippi

Merchants Foodservice - Jackson, MS

Jackson, MS · ~296 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merchants Foodservice - Jackson, MS runs at 374% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Merchants Foodservice - Jackson, MS: 8.2 TCR = 374% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merchants Foodservice - Jackson, MS safety composite

Merchants Foodservice - Jackson, MS scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

Merchants Foodservice - Jackson, MS: 5.1 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2021

Merchants Foodservice - Jackson, MS's TCR rose 1.5 from 5.1 in 2016 to 6.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 12.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Jackson, MS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 374% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #17/20
  • PHOTO Sysco North Texas, A…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 162 inj
  • SIZE ~296 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sysco North Texas, A Division of Sysco USA1, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Merchants Foodservice - Jackson, MS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merchants Foodservice - Jackson, MS averages 8.2 TCR (374% 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

Merchants Foodservice - Jackson, MS TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=6.4 · 2018=12.9 · 2019=11.8 · 2020=6.6 · 2021=6.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Merchants Foodservice - Jackson, MS falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 20 General-line groceries merchan employers in Mississippi.

Merchants Foodservice - Jackson, MS (296 employees, TCR 8.2) 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 Merchants Foodservice - Jackson, MS
Merchants Foodservice - Jackson, MS (296 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Merchants Foodservice - Jackson, MS 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
2021 6.6 4.7 21 0 0
2020 6.6 5.6 20 0 0
2019 11.8 6.3 39 0 0
2018 12.9 5.7 43 0 0
2017 6.4 2.8 23 0 0
2016 5.1 0.6 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · MS · Jackson

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 260 employers in Jackson, MS · 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 Sysco North Texas, A Division of Sysco USA1, Inc. 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Performance Caro Foods - 0635 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Victory Foodservice 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Restaurant Depot 539 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bauhaus Furniture Group, LLC 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE Independent Furniture Supply 295 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1059 297 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1088 295 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Dominic Jackson Memorial Hospital 2,937 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mississippi Baptist Medical Center 2,704 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Memorial Hospital - Mississippi Baptist Medical Center 2,566 FTE
CITY-NEAR MSJAC - JACKSON 1,458 FTE
NAT-TCR Kuehne + Nagel Inc. (LDZ-6446) 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Vita Plus (Gagetown) 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The DM Burr Group - Southfield Schools 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 020/Portland 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Genex Cooperative - Field 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clysar LLC 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue Diamond Growers Corporate Offices 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE Standard Furniture Manufacturing 296 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: 2021, 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.