Vegetables, frozen, merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Northern Frozen Foods

Cleveland, OH · ~324 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northern Frozen Foods runs at 753% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Vegetables, frozen, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Northern Frozen Foods: 16.6 TCR = 753% of Vegetables, frozen, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northern Frozen Foods safety composite

Northern Frozen Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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).

F

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 24.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Northern Frozen Foods: 8.9 → 24.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 24.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.46× in 2024

Northern Frozen Foods's TCR rose 15.3 from 8.9 in 2023 to 24.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424420 · Cleveland, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 16.6 · 753% of ind

  • DART 24.2 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO MA-TAUNT01-Taunton -…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~324 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MA-TAUNT01-Taunton - MA - Warehouse (0.1 TCR gap)

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Northern Frozen Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northern Frozen Foods averages 16.6 TCR (753% of the Vegetables, frozen, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Northern Frozen Foods TCR series: 2023=8.9 · 2024=24.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Northern Frozen Foods falls in its industry

134 Vegetables, frozen, merchant w establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Vegetables, frozen, merchant w employers in Ohio.

Northern Frozen Foods (324 employees, TCR 16.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 7.4 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Northern Frozen Foods
Northern Frozen Foods (324 employees, TCR 16.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 7.4

Northern Frozen Foods has more employees than the Vegetables, frozen, merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.4. 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
2024 24.2 24.2 19 0 0
2023 8.9 4.6 29 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424420 · OH · Cleveland

134 Vegetables, frozen, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 922 employers in Cleveland, OH · 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 MA-TAUNT01-Taunton - MA - Warehouse 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tankersley Foodservice LLC 15.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR AL-PELLC02-Pell City TRANS 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MI-CLINT02-Clinton Twp - MI - Trans 17.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kraft Heinz Mason 324 FTE
STATE-SIZE Podnar Plastics, Inc. 324 FTE
STATE-SIZE BRT Extrusions Inc 324 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ardagh Metal Packaging - Huron 324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Clinic Main Campus 25,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Cleveland Clinic Foundation 20,763 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Medical Center 10,377 FTE
CITY-NEAR SILCO FIRE & SECURITY - CLEVELAND 3,641 FTE
NAT-TCR Alohilani Resort Waikiki Beach 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Howard & Sons, Inc 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Orpheum Theatre 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Westminster Gardens 16.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clarendon County 324 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buck Knives, Inc 324 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tyco Fire Protection Products 324 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smallwood Management Company 324 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: 2024, 2023. 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.