Beverages, naturally carbonated bottled water, manufacturing · Minnesota

Bernicks Pepsi of Duluth

Duluth, MN · ~138 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bernicks Pepsi of Duluth runs at 260% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beverages, naturally carbonated bottled water, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Bernicks Pepsi of Duluth: 8.6 TCR = 260% of Beverages, naturally carbonated bottled water, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bernicks Pepsi of Duluth safety composite

Bernicks Pepsi of Duluth scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).

F

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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%).

Bernicks Pepsi of Duluth held a steady TCR band

Bernicks Pepsi of Duluth's TCR held near 0.0 from 9.3 in 2018 to 9.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=9.3 · 2019=14.0 · 2020=7.2 · 2021=6.0 · 2022=7.5 · 2023=6.7 · 2024=9.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312112 · Duluth, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 260% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK P11
  • PHOTO Alpine Valley Water …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~138 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alpine Valley Water Company Inc. (0.3 TCR gap)

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Bernicks Pepsi of Duluth in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bernicks Pepsi of Duluth averages 8.6 TCR (260% of the Beverages, naturally carbonated bottled water, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bernicks Pepsi of Duluth TCR series: 2018=9.3 · 2019=14 · 2020=7.2 · 2021=6 · 2022=7.5 · 2023=6.7 · 2024=9.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Bernicks Pepsi of Duluth falls in its industry

192 Beverages, naturally carbonate establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Bernicks Pepsi of Duluth (138 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bernicks Pepsi of Duluth
Bernicks Pepsi of Duluth (138 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Bernicks Pepsi of Duluth has more employees than the Beverages, naturally carbonated bottled median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 9.3 8.0 7 0 0
2023 6.7 6.7 5 0 0
2022 7.5 7.5 5 0 0
2021 6.0 6.0 4 0 0
2020 7.2 7.2 5 0 0
2019 14.0 14.0 10 5 0
2018 9.3 9.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312112 · MN · Duluth

192 Beverages, naturally carbonated bottled water, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 340 employers in Duluth, MN · 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 Alpine Valley Water Company Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carnegie 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marianna 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Halfmoon (Albany) 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waymouth Farms Inc 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Abdallah Candies Inc 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chaska B2 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Otter Lake Technologies 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Mary's Medical Center 3,230 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital of Duluth 3,052 FTE
CITY-NEAR Building D-Miller Dwan Medical Center 1,880 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Minnesota Duluth 1,701 FTE
NAT-TCR Pacific Seafood of Washington 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Valley Training Center Fresno East 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR ModuForm Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Phrg Clt 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jacksonville 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sidney Bakery 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brook & Whittle, Ltd. - Amherst 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dakotaland Manufacturing 138 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.