Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

August A Busch

Medford, MA · ~316 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

August A Busch runs at 278% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

August A Busch: 6.1 TCR = 278% of Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

August A Busch safety composite

August A Busch scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

−11.2

2016→2023

August A Busch injury rate improved

August A Busch's TCR fell 11.2 from 14.9 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 14.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.9 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Medford, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.1 · 278% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #4/9
  • PHOTO Indiana Beverage Inc
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 60 inj
  • SIZE ~316 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Indiana Beverage Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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August A Busch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows August A Busch averages 6.1 TCR (278% of the Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

August A Busch TCR series: 2016=14.9 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=3.7 · BLS 2.2

Where August A Busch falls in its industry

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except d establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 9 Beverages, alcoholic (except d employers in Massachusetts.

August A Busch (316 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate August A Busch
August A Busch (316 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

August A Busch has more employees than the Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled s median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.4. 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
2023 3.7 3.3 10 0 0
2022 2.9 2.4 6 0 0
2021 2.9 2.9 8 0 0
2016 14.9 11.3 36 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · MA · Medford

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 54 employers in Medford, MA · 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 Indiana Beverage Inc 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allstate Beverage Company 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clark Beverage Group Inc. (KY) 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coastal Beverage Company, Inc. - Farmville 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE TG Gallagher 316 FTE
STATE-SIZE Doble Engineering Company 316 FTE
STATE-SIZE CARE ONE AT HOLYOKE 316 FTE
STATE-SIZE OCY - Stoughton 316 FTE
CITY-NEAR Melrose Wakefield Hospital 1,232 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lawrence Memorial Hospital 584 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wegmans Medford 134 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bond Brothers, Inc. 414 FTE
NAT-TCR Falcon Structures 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Weber Knapp Company - Chandler Street Plant 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Seattle Branch 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Foodland Markets #54 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Smeal Fire Apparatus 316 FTE
NAT-SIZE Perfect Plastic Printing 316 FTE
NAT-SIZE St James Place of Baton Rouge 316 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kalmar Solutions LLC 316 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2016. 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.