Alcoholic beverages (except distilled spirits, wine) merchant wholesalers · Montana

Cardinal Distributing LLC

Bozeman, MT · ~96 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cardinal Distributing LLC runs at 345% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Alcoholic beverages (except distilled spirits, wine) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Cardinal Distributing LLC: 7.6 TCR = 345% of Alcoholic beverages (except distilled spirits, wine) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cardinal Distributing LLC safety composite

Cardinal Distributing LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

Cardinal Distributing LLC: 2.1 → 12.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.52× in 2023

Cardinal Distributing LLC's TCR rose 10.6 from 2.1 in 2020 to 12.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Bozeman, MT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 345% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Pompano - FGC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pompano - FGC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cardinal Distributing LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cardinal Distributing LLC averages 7.6 TCR (345% of the Alcoholic beverages (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

Cardinal Distributing LLC TCR series: 2020=2.1 · 2021=7.9 · 2023=12.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Cardinal Distributing LLC falls in its industry

664 Alcoholic beverages (except di establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Alcoholic beverages (except di employers in Montana.

Cardinal Distributing LLC (96 employees, TCR 7.6) 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 Cardinal Distributing LLC
Cardinal Distributing LLC (96 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Cardinal Distributing LLC has more employees than the Alcoholic beverages (except distilled sp 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
2023 12.8 3.9 13 0 0
2021 7.9 3.0 8 0 0
2020 2.1 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · MT · Bozeman

664 Alcoholic beverages (except distilled spirits, wine) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 136 employers in Bozeman, MT · 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 Pompano - FGC 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eagle Rock - Durango 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coho Distributing LLC Santa Rosa 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR GB Sacramento 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Huron Operations Center 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4054-ABS 0030 0006 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Rehabilitation Hospital of Montana - 4091 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colstrip 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital 1,739 FTE
CITY-NEAR BZNPW9672 BZN - FRONTIER PAX R 1,543 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2084 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2084 325 FTE
NAT-TCR Roost Potato Company Inc 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Norfolk Iron and Metal - Iowa 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0116 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mininger Farms 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Super Stop & Shop 0850 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100834 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100708 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100569 96 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, 2021, 2020. 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.