Cooking oils merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

The CORE Group- Western PA

Pittsburgh, PA · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The CORE Group- Western PA runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cooking oils merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

The CORE Group- Western PA: 2.3 TCR = 103% of Cooking oils merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The CORE Group- Western PA safety composite

The CORE Group- Western PA scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 2.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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

−3.6

2018→2020

The CORE Group- Western PA injury rate improved

The CORE Group- Western PA's TCR fell 3.6 from 3.6 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.6 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Pittsburgh, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 103% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/68
  • PHOTO IN - Spiceland - 608…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IN - Spiceland - 6083 South State Rd No. 3 - The American Bottling Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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The CORE Group- Western PA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The CORE Group- Western PA averages 2.3 TCR (103% of the Cooking oils merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

The CORE Group- Western PA TCR series: 2018=3.6 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=0 · BLS 2.2

Where The CORE Group- Western PA falls in its industry

1,278 Cooking oils merchant wholesal establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 68 Cooking oils merchant wholesal employers in Pennsylvania.

The CORE Group- Western PA (23 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate The CORE Group- Western PA
The CORE Group- Western PA (23 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

The CORE Group- Western PA has fewer employees than the Cooking oils merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.2 0.0 1 0 0
2018 3.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · PA · Pittsburgh

1,278 Cooking oils merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 1,170 employers in Pittsburgh, PA · 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 IN - Spiceland - 6083 South State Rd No. 3 - The American Bottling Company 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodland Foods 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tullahoma Production 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DecoPac, Inc. Anoka 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mt. Parnell Fisheries Co. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hickory Run Energy, LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE CPV Fairview LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valley Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Corporate Office 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR United States Steel COrporation 15,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Pittsburgh- Oakland 14,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside (PUH) 13,900 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Pittsburgh-Oakland 13,208 FTE
NAT-TCR 10 - Som 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kettelhut Construction, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Restoration 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR SDF Decatur 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Royal Crown Cola of Marion 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ellison Surface Technologies, Inc - Tennessee Coatings 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Londonderry Freezer Warehouse 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE BMC-Devils Lake 23 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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.