Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers · Florida

Premier Produce Central

Melbourne, FL · ~98 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Premier Produce Central runs at 383% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Premier Produce Central: 8.4 TCR = 383% of Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Premier Produce Central safety composite

Premier Produce Central scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Premier Produce Central: 4.0 → 12.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.52× in 2023

Premier Produce Central's TCR rose 8.7 from 4.0 in 2021 to 12.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Melbourne, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 383% of ind

  • DART 12.8 DART
  • RANK #38/45
  • PHOTO DMFP- Greensboro
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DMFP- Greensboro (0.1 TCR gap)

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Premier Produce Central in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Premier Produce Central averages 8.4 TCR (383% of the Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Premier Produce Central TCR series: 2021=4 · 2023=12.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Premier Produce Central falls in its industry

369 Berries, fresh, merchant whole establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 45 Berries, fresh, merchant whole employers in Florida.

Premier Produce Central (98 employees, TCR 8.4) 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 Premier Produce Central
Premier Produce Central (98 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Premier Produce Central has more employees than the Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers 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
2023 12.8 12.8 13 0 0
2021 4.0 3.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · FL · Melbourne

369 Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 305 employers in Melbourne, FL · 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 DMFP- Greensboro 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SunRiver of Idaho Inc 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foster-Caviness Company Inc 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jack Tuchten Wholesale Produce 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trulieve Juniper Creek 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake Wales Complex 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE WEST FLORIDA ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE KB Home Jacksonville LLC 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGAS-A458 4,719 FTE
CITY-NEAR HOLMES REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,725 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nextech HVACR 2,358 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health First Medical Group 1,787 FTE
NAT-TCR Cedarcrest, LLC. 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR California Marine Cleaning Inc 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Buena Vista Hospice 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR USM Store #690 (ALBERTSONS MARKET) 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kopco, Inc 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE DATCO Mfg. LLC 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fastener Technology, Corp 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kimpton Monaco Chicago_Fisk & Co. 98 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: 2023, 2021. 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.