“When America’s leading hospitality insurer puts their name on a sharpening service, the risk math works.”
Vetted, not advertised. Society’s risk team walked Cozzini’s facilities before signing the partnership.
Loss prevention, applied. Cozzini sharpening directly addresses food-service laceration claims — the #1 hospitality WC line.
Aligned with OSHA guidance. Sharp, maintained blades meet OSHA’s general duty obligation to control known hazards.
Real savings, real customers. New-customer pricing exclusive to Society policyholders — not a generic discount.
Society Insurance & Cozzini Bros β Endorsed Partnership
Sharper
kitchens
lines
margins
shifts
.
Fewer claims.
Cuts are a top-cited OSHA hazard in food service — and dull blades are the hidden cause. Society Insurance has vetted and endorsed Cozzini Bros as their exclusive sharpening partner, so policyholders get the real-deal risk math: sharper line, fewer accidents, lower claims.
A century of sharpening expertise meets a century of hospitality protection β vetted, walked-through, and stamped by Society’s risk management team.
Two Centuries. One Partnership.
A century apart on the calendar.
A century together on the cutting board.
Cozzini Bros and Society Insurance have served the same hospitality customers, on parallel rails, for over 100 years. In 2025, the rails crossed.
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The OSHA Reality
The kitchen is the most-injured room in hospitality.
Dull blades are the hidden cause.
Cozzini’s program isn’t a “nice-to-have” amenity β it’s a direct response to documented food-service injury data from OSHA, BLS, and the workers’ compensation insurance industry. Sharper knives, fewer slips, fewer claims.
Cuts, lacerations, and punctures top OSHA’s list of food-service hand injuries β and the kitchen is where they happen.
U.S. food services & drinking places report ~3 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers β well above the average industry.
Dull edges demand 2-4Γ the force of a sharp blade. That extra force is what causes slips β and slips are what cause cuts.
A single laceration claim β direct medical, lost shifts, training, replacement labor β averages five figures in fully-loaded cost.
Bottom line: Every Cozzini swap is a small loss-prevention event. Multiply it across 26 swaps a year and the math is hard to ignore β which is precisely why Society’s Risk Management team made this partnership official.
Run the numbers on your kitchen
Sharp blades pay for themselves.
See exactly how.
Move the sliders. We’ll project the laceration claims you avoid, the lost shifts you save, and the back-of-napkin annual savings β using NCCI hospitality benchmarks Society’s underwriters see every day.
Your Kitchen
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Default values seeded from NCCI hospitality WC claim data and BLS food-service injury rates. Yours will vary β your Cozzini rep can plug in your actuals during the on-site survey.
Based on a conservative 40% reduction in dull-blade-related laceration incidents β the consensus reduction in kitchen-safety research when consistent sharpening is enforced.
Illustrative estimate, not a binding insurance quote. Society Insurance pricing is determined by underwriting; talk to your agent about how loss-prevention programs factor into your specific WC dividend / experience-mod.
Two Companies. One Mission.
Risk prevention, applied to
the cutting board.
Dull blades = more force = slips.
ASTM research shows a dull blade requires 2-4Γ the force of a sharp one. That extra force is what slips off a tomato, a roast, a finger. Cozzini’s 2-week exchange keeps every blade at peak edge β every shift.
Society backs the math.
Society Insurance has spent 110+ years stopping hospitality losses before they reach the claim form. Their risk team vetted Cozzini’s facilities, process, and consistency β then made the endorsement official.
Fewer cuts. Lower P&L drag.
One laceration claim averages five figures fully-loaded β medical, lost shifts, training, replacement labor. Cozzini sharpening costs a fraction of that. The cost-benefit math is the whole reason this partnership exists.
The Physics of a Cut
A dull blade isn’t a dull blade.
It’s a slipping blade.
Most kitchen lacerations don’t come from sharp knives. They come from dull ones β the cook pushes harder, the blade slips off the tomato skin or the joint, and the edge ends up where it shouldn’t. Here’s the science.
Dull blade.
3Γ the force. 1Γ the slip.
- Cook compensates by pushing harder.
- Blade jumps off skin, fat cap, or fibrous joint.
- Angle changes mid-cut β the edge finds a finger.
- Crushed tissue: longer healing, longer lost-time claim.
- Same prep takes longer β more rushed cuts at peak.
Sharp blade.
1Γ the force. 0Γ the slip.
- Edge bites cleanly on first contact.
- Blade tracks where the cook intends it to.
- Consistent geometry from prep through close.
- Clean cuts heal faster (when they happen at all).
- Less fatigue, fewer rushed motions, fewer near-misses.
ASTM testing measures cutting force; OSHA’s general duty clause requires controlling known hazards; Society’s risk-management team operationalizes both β by enforcing a sharpening discipline that doesn’t depend on a busy line cook remembering to dress a stone.
About Cozzini Bros
A century of sharpening.
Coast to coast.
Established in 1905, Cozzini Bros serves restaurants, commercial kitchens, and grocery stores across the United States. Our proprietary Hydra sharpening technology β engineered in-house β delivers a consistency no in-kitchen sharpening can match.
Years of expertise
About Society Insurance
Small details.
Big difference.
Since 1915, Society Insurance has been a leading niche carrier focused on the hospitality industry β restaurants, bars, grocery stores, and more. Society’s risk management team works directly with policyholders to identify exposures and prevent losses before they happen.
- 110+ years of hospitality expertise
- Comprehensive risk control library β including food-service safety, OSHA-aligned
- Dedicated claims professionals + on-site loss-prevention visits
Society publishes a full Food Service Safety library for policyholders β knife & laceration safety, slip-trip-fall prevention, cooking-fire response, and more. Cozzini’s program operationalizes the knife chapter.
Years protecting hospitality
Behind the Partnership
Not a logo lock-up.
A walk-through.
Before Society put their name on this partnership, their team came on-site, into Cozzini’s sharpening facility, into customer kitchens, and into the route operation. Here’s what that looked like β the moments that earned the endorsement.
One Partnership, Every Kitchen
Built for every kind of kitchen.
Fine Dining
Bakeries
Commercial Kitchens
Seafood Counters
Butcher Shops
Prep Lines
Hotels & Catering
Trattorias
Steakhouses
Find your kitchen above? We sharpen for it.