General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Ohio

The Chefs' Warehouse Midwest

Cincinnati, OH · ~105 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Chefs' Warehouse Midwest runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

The Chefs' Warehouse Midwest: 3.0 TCR = 135% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Chefs' Warehouse Midwest safety composite

The Chefs' Warehouse Midwest scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−2.7

2022→2024

The Chefs' Warehouse Midwest injury rate improved

The Chefs' Warehouse Midwest's TCR fell 2.7 from 4.5 in 2022 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.5 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 3.0 · 135% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #21/54
  • PHOTO Goya Foods of Florid…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~105 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Goya Foods of Florida - Miami (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Chefs' Warehouse Midwest in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Chefs' Warehouse Midwest averages 3.0 TCR (135% 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

The Chefs' Warehouse Midwest TCR series: 2022=4.5 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 2.2

Where The Chefs' Warehouse Midwest falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 79% 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 #21 safest of 54 General-line groceries merchan employers in Ohio.

The Chefs' Warehouse Midwest (105 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 The Chefs' Warehouse Midwest
The Chefs' Warehouse Midwest (105 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

The Chefs' Warehouse Midwest has fewer 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 1.8 0.9 2 0 0
2023 2.6 1.3 2 0 0
2022 4.5 2.7 5 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 Goya Foods of Florida - Miami 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dough Works Co., Corp 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Performance Ledyard - 0680 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Jersey Branch 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Todhunter 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woda Construction Inc. 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Platform Cement Inc. 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Jackson Kitchen 105 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 Pursuit Aerospace - Stuart 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Packless Industries 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Altium Packaging - Poland Plant 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant 758 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Petro NYC - Maspeth 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western States Mechanical 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6559 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Horizons Telecom, Inc 105 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.