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

Certo Brothers Distributing Co

West Seneca, NY · ~333 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Certo Brothers Distributing Co runs at 785% 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.

Certo Brothers Distributing Co: 17.3 TCR = 785% of Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Certo Brothers Distributing Co safety composite

Certo Brothers Distributing Co scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

−6.6

2017→2018

Certo Brothers Distributing Co injury rate improved

Certo Brothers Distributing Co's TCR fell 6.6 from 20.6 in 2017 to 14.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 20.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=20.6 · 2018=14.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · West Seneca, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 17.3 · 785% of ind

  • DART 12.0 DART
  • RANK #45/45
  • PHOTO Fahr Beverage Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 71 inj
  • SIZE ~333 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fahr Beverage Inc. (0.2 TCR gap)

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Certo Brothers Distributing Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Certo Brothers Distributing Co averages 17.3 TCR (785% 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

Certo Brothers Distributing Co TCR series: 2017=20.6 · 2018=14 · BLS 2.2

Where Certo Brothers Distributing Co falls in its industry

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except d establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 45 Beverages, alcoholic (except d employers in New York.

Certo Brothers Distributing Co (333 employees, TCR 17.3) 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 Certo Brothers Distributing Co
Certo Brothers Distributing Co (333 employees, TCR 17.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Certo Brothers Distributing Co has more employees than the Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled s 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
2018 14.0 12.0 35 1 0
2017 20.6 16.6 36 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · NY · West Seneca

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 58 employers in West Seneca, NY · 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 Fahr Beverage Inc. 17.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burke Distributing Co. LLC 17.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Craft Beer Guild Distributing of Maine 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 110 - GB East Bay 16.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gilbane Building Company New York 333 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unit 2 333 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1673 333 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2107 333 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayer Bros West Seneca 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR Certo Brothers 326 FTE
CITY-NEAR SENECA HEALTH CARE CENTER LLC 223 FTE
CITY-NEAR Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - West Seneca 216 FTE
NAT-TCR Delta Plastics Stuttgart 17.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Floydada Coop Gin #1 17.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mosinee Facility 17.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZPRN 17.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Washington 333 FTE
NAT-SIZE MHPSA - Lake Mary 333 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toyota Boshoku America - Regional Headquarters 333 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Pool, LLC - Columbia 333 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.