Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers · Arizona

Stern Produce Co., Inc.

Phoenix, AZ · ~79 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Stern Produce Co., Inc. runs at 398% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Stern Produce Co., Inc.: 8.8 TCR = 398% of Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Stern Produce Co., Inc. safety composite

Stern Produce Co., Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

−1.2

2018→2022

Stern Produce Co., Inc. injury rate improved

Stern Produce Co., Inc.'s TCR fell 1.2 from 9.2 in 2018 to 8.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=9.2 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=11.7 · 2022=8.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Phoenix, AZ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 398% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK P22
  • PHOTO Watsonville Coast Pr…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Watsonville Coast Produce (0.0 TCR gap)

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Stern Produce Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Stern Produce Co., Inc. averages 8.8 TCR (398% 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

Stern Produce Co., Inc. TCR series: 2018=9.2 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=11.7 · 2022=8 · BLS 2.2

Where Stern Produce Co., Inc. falls in its industry

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Stern Produce Co., Inc. (79 employees, TCR 8.8) 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 Stern Produce Co., Inc.
Stern Produce Co., Inc. (79 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Stern Produce Co., Inc. has fewer 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
2022 8.0 6.4 5 0 0
2021 11.7 3.9 6 0 0
2020 6.2 3.7 5 0 0
2018 9.2 7.8 8 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · AZ · Phoenix

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 2,630 employers in Phoenix, AZ · 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 Watsonville Coast Produce 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bix Produce Company 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PH Cider LLC 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mr Greens Produce - Plant City 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bud of CA Broccoli AZ 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Verano CPG Coolidge 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE R. L. Workman Homes, LLC 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE EcoDry Restoration of Arizona 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maricopa County 15,504 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phoenix Children's Hospital 7,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR All Company 6,261 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030500 6,153 FTE
NAT-TCR Construction Results Corporation 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Original Mattress Factory - Columbus 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brakebush Mocksville 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rawhide Inc 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Walt Disney World Resort Phase 1 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stress Engineering Services Inc., Mason, Ohio 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newport Vineyards and Winery, LLC 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastern Engineered Wood Products 79 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.