Books merchant wholesalers · Alabama

American Wholesale Book Company

Florence, AL · ~393 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Wholesale Book Company runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Books merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

American Wholesale Book Company: 2.4 TCR = 110% of Books merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Wholesale Book Company safety composite

American Wholesale Book Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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)
C 2.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

American Wholesale Book Company held a steady TCR band

American Wholesale Book Company's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.3 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.3 · 2018=4.6 · 2019=1.4 · 2021=4.0 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=0.4 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424920 · Florence, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.4 · 110% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK P72
  • PHOTO Books and Library Se…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 61 inj
  • SIZE ~393 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Books and Library Services (0.1 TCR gap)

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American Wholesale Book Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Wholesale Book Company averages 2.4 TCR (110% of the Books merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

American Wholesale Book Company TCR series: 2017=2.3 · 2018=4.6 · 2019=1.4 · 2021=4 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=0.4 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 2.2

Where American Wholesale Book Company falls in its industry

57 Books merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
American Wholesale Book Company (393 employees, TCR 2.4) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 191 employees and a TCR of 3.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 26 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate American Wholesale Book Company
American Wholesale Book Company (393 employees, TCR 2.4) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 191 employees and a TCR of 3.8

American Wholesale Book Company has more employees than the Books merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 2.5 2.0 6 0 0
2023 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2022 1.9 1.3 6 0 0
2021 4.0 2.3 14 0 0
2019 1.4 1.4 5 0 0
2018 4.6 4.6 20 0 0
2017 2.3 2.0 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424920 · AL · Florence

57 Books merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 112 employers in Florence, AL · 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 Books and Library Services 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clearfield Distribution Center 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6350-MILAN DISTRIBUTION CENTER 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Girl Wilmot 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE BioHorizons Implant Systems, Inc. 393 FTE
STATE-SIZE P&S Transportation Birmingham, AL 394 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4021-500167400 394 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1284 391 FTE
CITY-NEAR Florence 6,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Alabama Medical Center 1,596 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shoals Ambulance 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southwire Florence 400 FTE
NAT-TCR Life Care Center of Rhea County 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR T3 Expo LLC Lakeville Ma 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR DFW Electric Group, LLC. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Grebe's Bakeries, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Qarbon Aerospace (Lafayette), LLC 393 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Elk Grove 393 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - TUS5 393 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - CLT6 393 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, 2022, 2021, 2019, 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.