Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Paragon Wholesale Foods Corp.

Warrendale, PA · ~163 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Paragon Wholesale Foods Corp. runs at 426% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Paragon Wholesale Foods Corp.: 9.4 TCR = 426% of Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paragon Wholesale Foods Corp. safety composite

Paragon Wholesale Foods Corp. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

−2.1

2018→2021

Paragon Wholesale Foods Corp. injury rate improved

Paragon Wholesale Foods Corp.'s TCR fell 2.1 from 10.4 in 2018 to 8.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=10.4 · 2021=8.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Warrendale, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 426% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #17/21
  • PHOTO Potato Pack Plant
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~163 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Potato Pack Plant (0.2 TCR gap)

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Paragon Wholesale Foods Corp. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paragon Wholesale Foods Corp. averages 9.4 TCR (426% 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

Paragon Wholesale Foods Corp. TCR series: 2018=10.4 · 2021=8.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Paragon Wholesale Foods Corp. falls in its industry

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 21 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b employers in Pennsylvania.

Paragon Wholesale Foods Corp. (163 employees, TCR 9.4) 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 Paragon Wholesale Foods Corp.
Paragon Wholesale Foods Corp. (163 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Paragon Wholesale Foods Corp. 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
2021 8.3 7.7 13 0 0
2018 10.4 9.3 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · PA · Warrendale

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 59 employers in Warrendale, PA · 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 Potato Pack Plant 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heeren, LLC - 7 Mile 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PSP Newport News 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charlie's Produce Boise 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tavo Packaging 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE US172: Philadelphia 544 - SG 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Warrell Corporation 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR Limbach Facility Services LLC 1,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Accredo Health Group, Inc. (Warrendale PA) 768 FTE
CITY-NEAR 416607-PITTSBURGH NDC 753 FTE
CITY-NEAR PITTSBURGH NDC_1436575 669 FTE
NAT-TCR Continuing Healthcare of Mentor 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutter Medical Foundation (185-222) 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Northern Plains 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZLWR 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holmes Building Materials - Airline 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rapid Micro Biosystems 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saybrook Converting Center 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE NPS Holdings LLC Cudahy 163 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, 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.