General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Illinois

Sysco Foods

Desplaines, IL · ~503 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sysco Foods runs at 223% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Sysco Foods: 4.9 TCR = 223% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sysco Foods safety composite

Sysco Foods scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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

−1.5

2017→2020

Sysco Foods injury rate improved

Sysco Foods's TCR fell 1.5 from 5.7 in 2017 to 4.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.7 · 2020=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Desplaines, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.9 · 223% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #39/78
  • PHOTO Core-Mark Los Angeles
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~503 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Core-Mark Los Angeles (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sysco Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sysco Foods averages 4.9 TCR (223% 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 Foods TCR series: 2017=5.7 · 2020=4.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Sysco Foods falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 78 General-line groceries merchan employers in Illinois.

Sysco Foods (503 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sysco Foods
Sysco Foods (503 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Sysco Foods has more employees than the General-line groceries merchant wholesal median and a lower 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
2020 4.2 2.8 15 0 0
2017 5.7 4.5 42 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · IL · Desplaines

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 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 Los Angeles 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sysco Asian Foods 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Boxed Meat Portland 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR AWG, Pearl River 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Romeoville Distribution Center 503 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Star Aviation / Alton 503 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ferrero (Fervalue) 504 FTE
STATE-SIZE OSI Group - Ashland 502 FTE
CITY-NEAR LaGrou DesPlaines 50 FTE
NAT-TCR WonderWorks Tennessee 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR FrieslandCampina Ingredients North America- Delhi 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ft. Wayne Hospice 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 224 Milpitas, Ca 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Memorial Hospital of Tampa 503 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morgan Advanced Materials Thermal Ceramics Inc. 503 FTE
NAT-SIZE EdAdvance LITCHFIELD 503 FTE
NAT-SIZE EHP-Univera Healthcare 503 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: 2020, 2017. 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.