Beer merchant wholesalers · South Carolina

Better Brands, Inc.

Myrtle Beach, SC · ~159 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Better Brands, Inc. runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beer merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Better Brands, Inc.: 3.7 TCR = 170% of Beer merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Better Brands, Inc. safety composite

Better Brands, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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)
B 3.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

−4.1

2017→2022

Better Brands, Inc. injury rate improved

Better Brands, Inc.'s TCR fell 4.1 from 8.1 in 2017 to 4.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.1 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=10.3 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Myrtle Beach, SC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.7 · 170% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO The Hand Family Beve…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~159 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Hand Family Beverage (0.0 TCR gap)

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Better Brands, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Better Brands, Inc. averages 3.7 TCR (170% of the Beer merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Better Brands, Inc. TCR series: 2017=8.1 · 2018=0 · 2019=10.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=4 · BLS 2.2

Where Better Brands, Inc. falls in its industry

664 Beer merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 7 Beer merchant wholesalers employers in South Carolina.

Better Brands, Inc. (159 employees, TCR 3.7) 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 Better Brands, Inc.
Better Brands, Inc. (159 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Better Brands, Inc. has more employees than the Beer merchant wholesalers 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
2022 4.0 4.0 7 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 10.3 10.3 18 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 8.1 4.0 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · SC · Myrtle Beach

664 Beer merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 244 employers in Myrtle Beach, SC · 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 The Hand Family Beverage 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR L&F Distributors - El Paso 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alliance Beverage Distributing-St. Joseph 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coastal 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 4531 Summerville Lumber Mill 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lexington Container 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pigment Services Inc. 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE AVANTech, LLC 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA - Grand Strand Medical Center 1,584 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grand Strand Health 1,257 FTE
CITY-NEAR Founders National Golf, LLC 829 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ocean Lakes Service Corp. 440 FTE
NAT-TCR Brookwood Community 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashley Construction Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Endless Mountain Stone Company 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid Florida Materials 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Essex Nursing & Rahabilitation 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phillip Morris Richmond 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cowarts Facility 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 2580 159 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.