General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Alabama

Wood Fruitticher Grocery Company, Inc.

Name: Wood Fruitticher Grocery Company, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Birmingham, AL · ~427 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 6.8
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Wood Fruitticher Grocery Company, Inc. runs at 308% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Wood Fruitticher Grocery Company, Inc.: 6.8 TCR = 308% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wood Fruitticher Grocery Company, Inc. safety composite

Wood Fruitticher Grocery Company, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 6.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers
DART rate: C 3.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−4.6

2023→2024

Wood Fruitticher Grocery Company, Inc. injury rate improved

Wood Fruitticher Grocery Company, Inc.'s TCR fell 4.6 from 9.1 in 2023 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=9.1 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Birmingham, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 308% of ind

DART 3.6 DART
RANK #19/25
PHOTO J. Winkler & Sons
BOOK 2y book
INJ 59 inj
SIZE ~427 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: J. Winkler & Sons (0.0 TCR gap)

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6.8
J. Winkler & S

6.8
San Francisco

6.8
Sysco Alaska,

6.8
Chetak New Yor

6.8

What this shows Wood Fruitticher Grocery Company, Inc. averages 6.8 TCR (308% of the General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Wood Fruitticher Grocery Company, Inc. TCR series: 2023=9.1 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Wood Fruitticher Grocery Company, Inc. falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 25 General-line groceries merchan employers in Alabama.

Wood Fruitticher Grocery Company, Inc. (427 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Wood Fruitticher Grocery Company, Inc. has more employees than the General-line groceries merchant wholesal 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
2024	4.5	3.6	20	1	0
2023	9.1	8.8	39	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · AL · Birmingham

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 840 employers in Birmingham, AL · 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	J. Winkler & Sons	DALE, IN	6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	San Francisco Branch	BRISBANE, CA	6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sysco Alaska, Inc.	ANCHORAGE, AK	6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Chetak New York	EDISON, NJ	6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	OKF Albertville Plant 2	ALBERTVILLE	428 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 661	ATHENS	428 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Goodwyn, Mills and Cawood, Inc.	MONTGOMERY	429 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Tyler Union	ANNISTON	432 FTE
CITY-NEAR	USD	Birmingham	9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CLASSIC FOODS	Birmingham	9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Corporate	Birmingham	8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BIRMINGHAM PACKERS	Birmingham	8,650 FTE
NAT-TCR	Avista Pullman	Pullman, WA	6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Top Ag Cooperative, Inc - Trenton	Trenton, IL	6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	W.L. Roenigk, Inc. - Allison Park	Allison Park, PA	6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Eataly Dallas	Dallas, TX	6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Central Jersey Behavioral Health	Toms River, NJ	427 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Foxconn EV System	Lordstown, OH	427 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Taylor Farms Texas, Inc	Dallas, TX	427 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Kiel Center Partners, LP	St. Louis, MO	427 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.