General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Mississippi

United Natural Foods INC

Name: United Natural Foods INC Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Indianola, MS · ~133 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 1.9
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

United Natural Foods INC runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

United Natural Foods INC: 1.9 TCR = 89% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

United Natural Foods INC safety composite

United Natural Foods INC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% 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).

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers
DART rate: B 1.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−0.6

2023→2024

United Natural Foods INC injury rate improved

United Natural Foods INC's TCR fell 0.6 from 2.3 in 2023 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.3 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Indianola, MS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 1.9 · 89% of ind

DART 1.6 DART
RANK #3/20
PHOTO John Gross and Company
BOOK 2y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~133 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: John Gross and Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.9
John Gross and

1.9
Restaurant Dep

1.9
Lyons Specialt

1.9

What this shows United Natural Foods INC averages 1.9 TCR (89% of the General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

United Natural Foods INC TCR series: 2023=2.3 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 2.2

Where United Natural Foods INC falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 20 General-line groceries merchan employers in Mississippi.

United Natural Foods INC (133 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

United Natural Foods INC 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	1.6	1.6	2	0	0
2023	2.3	2.3	3	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · MS · Indianola

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 13 employers in Indianola, MS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	John Gross and Company	MECHANICSBURG, PA	1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Restaurant Depot 559	VALLEY VIEW, OH	1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Denver DSD Facility	DENVER, CO	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Lyons Specialty Co, LLC	PORT ALLEN, LA	1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Community Construction Co. LLC	HAZLEHURST	133 FTE
STATE-SIZE	1527 LOWE S OF GREENVILLE MS	GREENVILLE	133 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2807-3041	NEW ALBANY	133 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2807-2350	WAVELAND	133 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Indianola, DC	Indianola	657 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 347	Indianola	217 FTE
CITY-NEAR	347	Indianola	215 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SUPERVALU DISTRIBUTION CENTER - INDIANOLA 37111	Indianola	167 FTE
NAT-TCR	STR0564	Elkin, NC	1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	STR0540	Christiansburg, VA	1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	STR0080	Shelby, NC	1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kempsville Building Materials 470	Chesapeake, VA	1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Techflex, Inc	Sparta, NJ	133 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Northern Idaho Advanced Care Hospital, Inc.	Post Falls, ID	133 FTE
NAT-SIZE	CO Logistics LLC	Lakeland, FL	133 FTE
NAT-SIZE	PLZ Corp Fall River	Fall River, MA	133 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. 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.