Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Sysco Boston

Plympton, MA · ~787 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sysco Boston runs at 565% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Sysco Boston: 12.4 TCR = 565% of Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sysco Boston safety composite

Sysco Boston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
D 6.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

−5.9

2021→2024

Sysco Boston injury rate improved

Sysco Boston's TCR fell 5.9 from 15.0 in 2021 to 9.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 15.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=15.0 · 2022=13.1 · 2023=12.6 · 2024=9.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 12.4 · 565% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #28/35
  • PHOTO Core-Mark Arizona Di…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 417 inj
  • SIZE ~787 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Core-Mark Arizona Distribution Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sysco Boston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sysco Boston averages 12.4 TCR (565% of the Groceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Sysco Boston TCR series: 2021=15 · 2022=13.1 · 2023=12.6 · 2024=9 · BLS 2.2

Where Sysco Boston falls in its industry

1,651 Groceries, general-line, merch establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #28 safest of 35 Groceries, general-line, merch employers in Massachusetts.

Sysco Boston (787 employees, TCR 12.4) 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
Sysco Boston (787 employees, TCR 12.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Sysco Boston has more employees than the Groceries, general-line, merchant wholes 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 9.0 6.3 90 0 0
2023 12.6 11.2 107 0 0
2022 13.1 11.1 104 0 0
2021 15.0 14.3 116 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · MA · Plympton

1,651 Groceries, general-line, 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 Core-Mark Arizona Distribution Center 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Foods Allentown 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lipari Foods - Rochester 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eby-Brown Detroit 12.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hudson Campus 788 FTE
STATE-SIZE Partners Home Care Inc 786 FTE
STATE-SIZE EMD Serono, Inc. Rockland 781 FTE
STATE-SIZE Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. 781 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sysco Boston Food Services 860 FTE
CITY-NEAR Litecontrol 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Current Lighting Solutions 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR 40146 - Capstone Sysco Boston MA 31 FTE
NAT-TCR Liberty Plant 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR New London 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR South Loading-Est 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR MPV Morganton Pressure Vessel North Carolina LLC 12.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kuakini Medical Center 787 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peri & Sons Farms, Inc 787 FTE
NAT-SIZE ALPRGARC 787 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mission Foods Grand Prairie 787 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.