Food Distribution · Kentucky

Sysco Louisville

Louisville, KY · ~340 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sysco Louisville runs at 340% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

Sysco Louisville: 7.5 TCR = 340% of Food Distribution BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sysco Louisville safety composite

Sysco Louisville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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 Louisville: 6.9 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2024

Sysco Louisville's TCR rose 1.1 from 6.9 in 2016 to 8.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 340% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #12/23
  • PHOTO Foodservice Cedar Ra…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~340 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Foodservice Cedar Rapids - 0568 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sysco Louisville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sysco Louisville averages 7.5 TCR (340% of the Food Distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Sysco Louisville TCR series: 2016=6.9 · 2024=8 · BLS 2.2

Where Sysco Louisville falls in its industry

1,651 Food Distribution establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 23 Food Distribution employers in Kentucky.

Sysco Louisville (340 employees, TCR 7.5) 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 Louisville
Sysco Louisville (340 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Sysco Louisville has more employees than the Food Distribution 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 8.0 6.6 22 0 0
2016 6.9 6.0 28 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · KY · Louisville

1,651 Food Distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, KY · 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 Foodservice Cedar Rapids - 0568 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SUPERVALU DISTRIBUTION CENTER - FARGO 31411 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR McDonald Wholesale Co. Satellite Warehouse CA 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reinhart - Omaha - 0574 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hoskin and Muir 340 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danville Plant 340 FTE
STATE-SIZE 16021-Louisville 340 FTE
STATE-SIZE K-C Owensboro 339 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson County Public Schools 18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTKY TRUCK 8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR 1015 Jef71 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR County Waste Southwest Virginia LLC 1 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR New Lenox School District 122 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 2025 Coborn's Mitchell - SD 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Larksfield Place Retirement Communities 340 FTE
NAT-SIZE SOCAL 340 FTE
NAT-SIZE ATLANTA 340 FTE
NAT-SIZE Irving Tissue 340 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, 2016. 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.