Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetables) merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Natural Foods, Inc

Name: Natural Foods, Inc Workplace Safety Data
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Toledo, OH · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 2.8
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Natural Foods, Inc runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetables) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Natural Foods, Inc: 2.8 TCR = 127% of Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetables) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Natural Foods, Inc safety composite

Natural Foods, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% 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).

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers
DART rate: A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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

−5.6

2017→2018

Natural Foods, Inc injury rate improved

Natural Foods, Inc's TCR fell 5.6 from 5.6 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.6 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Toledo, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.8 · 127% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #14/68
PHOTO G&J Pepsi- Ripley
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: G&J Pepsi- Ripley (0.0 TCR gap)

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G&J Pepsi- Rip

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Sacramento, CA

2.8
VALDOSTA GA

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The ICEE Compa

2.8

What this shows Natural Foods, Inc averages 2.8 TCR (127% of the Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetables) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Natural Foods, Inc TCR series: 2017=5.6 · 2018=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Natural Foods, Inc falls in its industry

1,278 Dried foods (e.g., fruits, mil establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 68 Dried foods (e.g., fruits, mil employers in Ohio.

Natural Foods, Inc (23 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Natural Foods, Inc has fewer employees than the Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetab median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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
2018	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2017	5.6	5.6	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · OH · Toledo

1,278 Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetables) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 551 employers in Toledo, OH · 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	G&J Pepsi- Ripley	RIPLEY, OH	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sacramento, CA	W. SACRAMENTO, CA	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	VALDOSTA GA	VALDOSTA, GA	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	The ICEE Company - DALLAS	GARLAND, TX	2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	MID EAST PRODUCTION LLC	TIFFIN	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Schlessman Seed Co	MILAN	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lake County Nursery	MADISON	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	LCN Holdings Inc dba Lake County Nursery	MADISON	23 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Toledo Assembly Complex	Toledo	5,508 FTE
CITY-NEAR	The Toledo Hospital	Toledo	5,002 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Toledo Hospital	Toledo	4,912 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Promedica Downtown Headquarters	Toledo	3,308 FTE
NAT-TCR	Life Care Center of Copper Basin	Ducktown, TN	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Letica Freightlines	Rochester, MI	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Chicago II	Chicago, IL	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Faurecia - Fraser	Fraser, MI	2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Hom/Ade Foods Inc	Pensacola, FL	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Kennewick_Yakima	Kennewick, WA	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	KTC 50020 Collins	Collins, MS	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Malloy Electric-Omaha	Omaha, NE	23 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: 2018, 2017. 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.