Food Distribution · Rhode Island

US Foods Rhode Island

North Kingstown, RI · ~68 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

US Foods Rhode Island runs at 396% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

US Foods Rhode Island: 8.7 TCR = 396% of Food Distribution BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

US Foods Rhode Island safety composite

US Foods Rhode Island scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

US Foods Rhode Island: 6.3 → 11.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.28× in 2018

US Foods Rhode Island's TCR rose 4.9 from 6.3 in 2017 to 11.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · North Kingstown, RI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 396% of ind

  • DART 11.2 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO Palmer Food Services
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Palmer Food Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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US Foods Rhode Island in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows US Foods Rhode Island averages 8.7 TCR (396% of the Food Distribution BLS benchmark).

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

US Foods Rhode Island TCR series: 2017=6.3 · 2018=11.2 · BLS 2.2

Where US Foods Rhode Island falls in its industry

1,651 Food Distribution establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Rhode Island alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Food Distribution employers in Rhode Island.

US Foods Rhode Island (68 employees, TCR 8.7) 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 US Foods Rhode Island
US Foods Rhode Island (68 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

US Foods Rhode Island has fewer 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
2018 11.2 11.2 6 0 0
2017 6.3 6.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · RI · North Kingstown

1,651 Food Distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,610 rated employers in Rhode Island with headcount on file · 66 employers in North Kingstown, RI · 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 Palmer Food Services 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Performance Arizona - 1012 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Foods Roanoke 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sysco San Diego, Inc 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE All Projects 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blount Fine Foods-Warren 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guill Tool & Engineering Co., Inc. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Teknicote 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp 5,460 FTE
CITY-NEAR Electric Boat 3,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toray Plastics (America), Inc. 569 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toray-RI 554 FTE
NAT-TCR Safco - WI (Steel Plant) 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Boose Aluminum Foundry Co Inc 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Des Moines (Ankeny) Depot 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR QSI Moroni 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tri-Seal Flemington 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flint Group, Lebanon, OH 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Taylor 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE 14 - Theisen's - Cedar Rapids SW 68 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.