General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · New York

Zimowski Food Specialties

Chadwicks, NY · ~22 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Zimowski Food Specialties runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Zimowski Food Specialties: 3.1 TCR = 143% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Zimowski Food Specialties safety composite

Zimowski Food Specialties scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

Zimowski Food Specialties: 0.0 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.45× in 2018

Zimowski Food Specialties's TCR rose 4.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 1.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Chadwicks, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.1 · 143% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #17/72
  • PHOTO Banner Wholesale Gro…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Banner Wholesale Grocers, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Zimowski Food Specialties in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Zimowski Food Specialties averages 3.1 TCR (143% 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

Zimowski Food Specialties TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4.9 · 2018=4.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Zimowski Food Specialties falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 72 General-line groceries merchan employers in New York.

Zimowski Food Specialties (22 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Zimowski Food Specialties
Zimowski Food Specialties (22 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Zimowski Food Specialties 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
2018 4.5 4.5 1 0 0
2017 4.9 4.9 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · NY · Chadwicks

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 6 employers in Chadwicks, NY · 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 Banner Wholesale Grocers, Inc 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stephenson Wholesale Company Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Florida Sales & DSD Facility 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sparks Grocery Oultet 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Turek Farms Management Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Cattle LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ridgecrest Dairy 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Affinity Agriculture LLC 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1019-UCPMC-CHADWICKS CAMPUS 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mohawk Ltd 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Williams Tool, Inc. 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR NY03-UTI-UTICA 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Republic National Distributing Company 2 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Scottsdale Links Resort 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TVS-Charlotte 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bridgewater Interiors - Detroit 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gavilon Grain - Vicksburg 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Liberty Steel Products of Hubbard, LLC. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Office 84 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ryan Construction, Inc. 22 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.