General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Sysco Foods

Cincinnati, OH · ~275 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sysco Foods runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Sysco Foods: 3.1 TCR = 141% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sysco Foods safety composite

Sysco Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

Sysco Foods: 1.6 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.1× in 2024

Sysco Foods's TCR rose 2.5 from 1.6 in 2020 to 4.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Cincinnati, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.1 · 141% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #25/54
  • PHOTO 3K US Foods Streator
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~275 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 3K US Foods Streator (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 3.1 TCR (141% 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: 2020=1.6 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=4 · BLS 2.2

Where Sysco Foods falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 54 General-line groceries merchan employers in Ohio.

Sysco Foods (275 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 (275 employees, TCR 3.1) 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
2024 4.0 3.4 13 0 0
2023 3.2 3.2 11 0 0
2022 3.1 3.1 10 0 0
2021 3.6 3.3 11 0 0
2020 1.6 1.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · OH · Cincinnati

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,513 employers in Cincinnati, OH · 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 3K US Foods Streator 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hillandale Farms LLC 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dot Foods, Inc. Mt. Sterling 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sysco New Orleans 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Industrial Construction/Engineering 275 FTE
STATE-SIZE Akron Innovation Center - Goodyear 275 FTE
STATE-SIZE COVERT MANUFACTURING INC 275 FTE
STATE-SIZE HDQT1-Prior Building 1 Newbury, OH 275 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center 17,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Operations 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Evendale, OH 7,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain Evendale OH 6,400 FTE
NAT-TCR Mercy Hospital Lincoln 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Aso LLC 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 10518 Upper East Side 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1602 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE HW Downtown Brooklyn 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE Horizon West Hospital 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE Broder Bros Co dba Primeline 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE 067 - Monroe 275 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, 2020. 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.