General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Minnesota

Pohl Food Service

Minneapolis, MN · ~23 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pohl Food Service runs at 997% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Pohl Food Service: 21.9 TCR = 997% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pohl Food Service safety composite

Pohl Food Service scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% 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

Pohl Food Service: 20.5 → 58.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 85.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Pohl Food Service's TCR rose 38.1 from 20.5 in 2017 to 58.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 85.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Minneapolis, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 21.9 · 997% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #37/38
  • PHOTO MA-TAUNT01
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MA-TAUNT01 (0.2 TCR gap)

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Pohl Food Service in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pohl Food Service averages 21.9 TCR (997% 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

Pohl Food Service TCR series: 2017=20.5 · 2018=14.3 · 2019=85.7 · 2020=25.3 · 2021=44 · 2022=27.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=58.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Pohl Food Service falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 38 General-line groceries merchan employers in Minnesota.

Pohl Food Service (23 employees, TCR 21.9) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Pohl Food Service
Pohl Food Service (23 employees, TCR 21.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Pohl Food Service has fewer 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
2024 58.6 0.0 9 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 27.5 22.9 3 3 0
2021 44.0 44.0 1 7 0
2020 25.3 15.2 5 0 0
2019 85.7 78.6 3 9 0
2018 14.3 0.0 4 0 0
2017 20.5 20.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · MN · Minneapolis

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 1,321 employers in Minneapolis, MN · 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 21.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Restaurant Depot 802 21.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MD-ABERD01 22.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tops Frozen Distribution Center 22.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brooten 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Dairy, Alpha Foods, LLP 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE MNHT-SEL-HIGHWAY 12' 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fergus Falls CSC 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Minnesota Twin Cities 22,522 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN950 MN TELECOMMUTER 12,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0501 - City Center 8,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hennepin County Medical Center 7,030 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0629 State College 21.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Mcgee Air Services Pdx 21.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Auberge at Brookfield 21.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Emterra Environmental USA -Flint 21.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hydrofire 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ridgewood at Shenango Valley 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quinco Contracting 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allemand Industries, Inc. 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.