General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Sysco Boston Food Services

Plympton, MA · ~860 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sysco Boston Food Services runs at 407% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Sysco Boston Food Services: 9.0 TCR = 407% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sysco Boston Food Services safety composite

Sysco Boston Food Services scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

−0.6

2016→2018

Sysco Boston Food Services injury rate improved

Sysco Boston Food Services's TCR fell 0.6 from 9.3 in 2016 to 8.7 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.3 · 2018=8.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Plympton, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 407% of ind

  • DART 8.4 DART
  • RANK #19/35
  • PHOTO Stockton Main
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 149 inj
  • SIZE ~860 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stockton Main (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sysco Boston Food Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sysco Boston Food Services averages 9.0 TCR (407% 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

Sysco Boston Food Services TCR series: 2016=9.3 · 2018=8.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Sysco Boston Food Services falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 35 General-line groceries merchan employers in Massachusetts.

Sysco Boston Food Services (860 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sysco Boston Food Services
Sysco Boston Food Services (860 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Sysco Boston Food Services has more 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
2018 8.7 8.4 74 0 0
2016 9.3 7.7 75 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · MA · Plympton

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 8 employers in Plympton, MA · 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 Stockton Main 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Foods Kansas City 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sygma PA 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Performance Atlanta - 0705 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE CMA 862 FTE
STATE-SIZE MGB Home Care (formerly known as Partners Healthcare at Home) 862 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham 863 FTE
STATE-SIZE Organogenesis (Campus: 85, 65, and 150 Dan Rd Canton Locations) 855 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sysco Boston 787 FTE
CITY-NEAR Litecontrol 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Current Lighting Solutions 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR 40146 - Capstone Sysco Boston MA 31 FTE
NAT-TCR Pdx Airport (Orair) 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Prime Pak Foods 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Harbor Village North 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Save-A-Lot #45100 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Multnomah County Bldg 503 / Multnomah Building 860 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arinc Incoporated (Annapolis MD) 860 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henry County Memorial Hospital 860 FTE
NAT-SIZE Suncoast Hotel Casino 860 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.