Industry profile · NAICS 424470

Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers

Workplace injury rates across 154 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

154
Employers
6.2
Avg TCR
2.2
BLS benchmark
2,970
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers average 6.2 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.8 times the BLS national benchmark of 2.2.

6.2
avg TCR · reporting employers
2.2
BLS national benchmark
154
employers reporting
2,970
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers Safety Data Reveals

The Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers sector (NAICS 424470) encompasses 154 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 2,970 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.2 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 2.2 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 6.2 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.

The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Meats, fresh, merchant wholesalers that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
KY-WALTO01-Walton - KY - Halperns Walton, KY F 7.3
Specialty La Crosse Meat - 0556 La Crosse, WI F 7.3
Midwest Perishables, Inc. Madison, WI F 7.2
UW Provision Company, Inc Middleton, WI F 7.2
Fruitland Vernon, CA F 7.1
Weinstein Wholesale Meats- MPI Madison, WI F 7.0
A.I. Foods Corporation Los Angeles, CA F 7.0
Quirch Foods - Greensboro Greensboro, NC F 6.9
Deli Brands of America Baltimore, MD F 6.8
Meat & Seafood Solutions, LLC Greensboro, NC F 6.8
Steak Room Detroit, MI F 6.5
Buckhead Meat Mid-Atlantic Landover, MD F 6.4
Sierra Meat Company Reno, NV F 6.2
Gourmet Ranch Houston, TX F 5.8
Butts Foods Birmingham Birmingham, AL F 5.8
FL-FTLAU02-Ft Lauderdale - FL - Halperns Fort Lauderdale, FL F 5.7
Taylor's Sausage Inc. Cave Junction, OR F 5.7
Mister Price, Inc. Guaynabo, PR F 5.6
Butts Foods - Jackson Jackson, TN F 5.5
2398_4372 Fort Wayne, IN F 5.5
Vazquez Foods Commerce, CA F 5.5
Good Harvest Grains Norcross, GA F 5.5
PC South Detroit, MI F 5.5
Rose Meat Services Inc. DBA Glen Rose Meat Company Vernon, CA F 5.4
Fulton Troika LLC Chicago, IL F 5.3
Amico Premium Provisions Howell, MI F 5.3
Double J Meat Packing Inc Pierce, CO F 5.3
Frank Brunckhorst Co., LLC Brooklyn, NY F 5.1
Grand Western Orlando, FL F 5.0
Buckhead Meat & Seafood - New England Warwick, RI F 4.9
Denver Processing Denver, CO F 4.8
Butts Foods - Birmingham Birmingham, AL F 4.7
Newport Meat Irvine, CA F 4.7
Double D Meat Company, Inc. Bogalusa, LA F 4.7
AVA Pork Products Hicksville, NY F 4.7
Quirch Foods - Medley Medley, FL F 4.6
Colorado Box Beef - Dallas Dallas, TX F 4.6
Reisinger Poultry Inc York, PA F 4.5
Colorado Box Beef - Lakeland Lakeland, FL F 4.5
PC North Detroit, MI F 4.5
7031 Houston, TX F 4.5
Melotte Distributing Green Bay, WI F 4.4
Tarantino Wholesale Foods San Diego, CA D 4.3
William & Co Foods Inc Boston, MA D 4.3
Schaller & Weber New York, NY D 4.3
Butts Foods - Nashville Berry Hill, TN D 4.3
Columbia Packing Co, Inc Dallas, TX D 4.3
CEDI Border Welsaco, TX D 4.2
Quirch Foods - Atlanta Atlanta, GA D 4.1
Scarianos - Hammond Hammond, LA D 4.1
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This sector averages 6.2 against a BLS benchmark of 2.2 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.