Beer merchant wholesalers · Florida

Bernie Little Distributors

Lakeland, FL · ~169 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bernie Little Distributors runs at 706% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beer merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Bernie Little Distributors: 15.5 TCR = 706% of Beer merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bernie Little Distributors safety composite

Bernie Little Distributors scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Bernie Little Distributors: 10.7 → 20.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 20.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2024

Bernie Little Distributors's TCR rose 9.7 from 10.7 in 2021 to 20.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Lakeland, FL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 15.5 · 706% of ind

  • DART 17.9 DART
  • RANK #35/35
  • PHOTO Gretz Beverage Montc…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~169 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gretz Beverage Montco Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bernie Little Distributors in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bernie Little Distributors averages 15.5 TCR (706% of the Beer merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Bernie Little Distributors TCR series: 2021=10.7 · 2024=20.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Bernie Little Distributors falls in its industry

664 Beer merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 35 Beer merchant wholesalers employers in Florida.

Bernie Little Distributors (169 employees, TCR 15.5) 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 Bernie Little Distributors
Bernie Little Distributors (169 employees, TCR 15.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Bernie Little Distributors has more employees than the Beer merchant wholesalers median and a higher 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
2024 20.4 17.9 16 0 0
2021 10.7 7.3 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · FL · Lakeland

664 Beer merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 426 employers in Lakeland, FL · 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 Gretz Beverage Montco Inc. 15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 120 - Santa Fe Springs 15.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 124 - Moreno Valley 15.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kona 15.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pacific Tomato Growers, Ltd. - 301 Packing House 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carroll Bradford Inc. 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Adena Lakeland 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heart Utilities, Inc. 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Regional Medical Center 5,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeland Distribution 2,927 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clinic 1,651 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - KLAL 1,210 FTE
NAT-TCR US Foods Swedesboro 15.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Unibilt Industries 15.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gold City Health & Rehab 15.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Gardens at Blue Ridge 15.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diebold Nixdorf Brea CA 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Castle Pines Golf Club 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 483 169 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.