General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Sysco Nashville

Nashville, TN · ~324 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sysco Nashville runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Sysco Nashville: 4.0 TCR = 183% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sysco Nashville safety composite

Sysco Nashville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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 Nashville: 1.7 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.27× in 2023

Sysco Nashville's TCR rose 5.1 from 1.7 in 2016 to 6.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Nashville, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 183% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #19/43
  • PHOTO Foodservice Temple -…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 93 inj
  • SIZE ~324 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Foodservice Temple - 0740 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sysco Nashville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sysco Nashville averages 4.0 TCR (183% 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 Nashville TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2017=1.7 · 2020=0.2 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=8.1 · 2023=6.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Sysco Nashville falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 43 General-line groceries merchan employers in Tennessee.

Sysco Nashville (324 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sysco Nashville
Sysco Nashville (324 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Sysco Nashville 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
2023 6.9 5.1 27 0 0
2022 8.1 6.7 29 0 0
2021 5.5 2.9 19 0 0
2020 0.2 0.1 4 0 0
2017 1.7 1.5 7 0 0
2016 1.7 1.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · TN · Nashville

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,187 employers in Nashville, TN · 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 Temple - 0740 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CS Wholesale Grocers : Montgomery, AL (PDC) 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Labatt New Mexico 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR QCD Minneapolis 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bernhard MCC L.L.C. TN 324 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lasko Products LLC TN 324 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bass Pro Outdoor World-Memphis Pyramid 324 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1194 324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parallon Enterprises, LLC 15,267 FTE
CITY-NEAR METROPOLITAN GOVT. OF NASHVILLE,& DAVIDSON COUNTY 10,278 FTE
CITY-NEAR METRO NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 9,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR TriStar Centennial Medical Center 3,106 FTE
NAT-TCR Pittsfield Manor 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Compton Base - Bld: 0141 - 15 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR EK Machine 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Carbide Tool Services, Inc 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE NorthEast C/O and DistColl - Bld: 6232 - 01 324 FTE
NAT-SIZE VMS Ridgefield 324 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midway Distribution Center DC2 & DC2B 324 FTE
NAT-SIZE Philips NAM Orange OH 324 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2017, 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.