Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers · Kentucky

Papania's

Lexington, KY · ~11 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Papania's runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Papania's: 1.2 TCR = 55% of Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Papania's safety composite

Papania's scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% 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

−4.8

2018→2024

Papania's injury rate improved

Papania's's TCR fell 4.8 from 4.8 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.8 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Lexington, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.2 · 55% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Philadelphia
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~11 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Philadelphia (0.0 TCR gap)

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Papania's in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Papania's averages 1.2 TCR (55% of the Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Papania's TCR series: 2018=4.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Papania's falls in its industry

369 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholes establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholes employers in Kentucky.

Papania's (11 employees, TCR 1.2) 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 Papania's
Papania's (11 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Papania's has fewer employees than the Fruits, 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.8 4.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · KY · Lexington

369 Fruits, fresh, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 652 employers in Lexington, KY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Philadelphia 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwest Foods 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Florida Packers, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jack Brown Produce, Inc. 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Excursion Line Construction, LLC 11 FTE
STATE-SIZE EXPRESS DEDICATED LLC KY 11 FTE
STATE-SIZE Two Men and a Truck- Louisville East 11 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Residential Accounting 11 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County 11,013 FTE
CITY-NEAR UK Healthcare 9,922 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central KY - Gatton Beaumont 3,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central Ky - High Street 3,895 FTE
NAT-TCR Phoeaz-Inc-Phoenix,Az - Arizona 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Simpsonville Operations Center 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenwood Operations Center 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Pelican Bay Foundation, Inc. 1.2 TCR

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, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.