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

Certo Brothers

Name: Certo Brothers Workplace Safety Data
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West Seneca, NY · ~326 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 9.5
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Certo Brothers runs at 431% 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: 9.5 TCR = 431% of Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Certo Brothers safety composite

Certo Brothers scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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).

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 9.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers
DART rate: F 10.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Certo Brothers: 8.0 → 11.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2019

Certo Brothers's TCR rose 3.0 from 8.0 in 2016 to 11.0 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.5 · 431% of ind

DART 10.2 DART
RANK #35/45
PHOTO Ventura County
BOOK 2y book
INJ 50 inj
SIZE ~326 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ventura County (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Certo Brothers averages 9.5 TCR (431% of the Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Certo Brothers TCR series: 2016=8 · 2019=11 · BLS 2.2

Where Certo Brothers falls in its industry

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except d establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 45 Beverages, alcoholic (except d employers in New York.

Certo Brothers (326 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Certo Brothers 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
2019	11.0	10.2	27	0	0
2016	8.0	6.6	23	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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Ventura County	OXNARD, CA	9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	121 - Chicago Bev	CHICAGO, IL	9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Grey Eagle - Fenton	FENTON, MO	9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Columbia Distributing Spokane	SPOKANE, WA	9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	The Pace Companies New York LLC	BROOKLYLN	326 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Urban Foundation Engineering	FLUSHING	326 FTE
STATE-SIZE	INFICON	EAST SYRACUSE	326 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Plug Power Rochester Gigafactory	WEST HENRIETTA	326 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Certo Brothers Distributing Co	West Seneca	333 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mayer Bros West Seneca	West Seneca	329 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SENECA HEALTH CARE CENTER LLC	West Seneca	223 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - West Seneca	West Seneca	216 FTE
NAT-TCR	Dianda Construction	Reno, NV	9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Goodwill Services Janitorial Contract Staff	Ft Myers, FL	9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	North Georgia District - Habersham, Hiawassee & Moore's	Cornelia, GA	9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hollywood Biotest Plasma Center	Hollywood, FL	9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Monterey Boats Corporate	Williston, FL	326 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Perrigo : Minnesota (PMN)	Minneapolis, MN	326 FTE
NAT-SIZE	North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : BWI1	Sterling, VA	326 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Standard Meat Company	Dallas, TX	326 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: 2019, 2016. 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.