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

Colonial Wholesale Beverage

Fall River, MA · ~140 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Colonial Wholesale Beverage runs at 828% 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.

Colonial Wholesale Beverage: 18.2 TCR = 828% of Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Colonial Wholesale Beverage safety composite

Colonial Wholesale Beverage scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

2/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

Colonial Wholesale Beverage: 10.0 → 20.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 22.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2019

Colonial Wholesale Beverage's TCR rose 10.1 from 10.0 in 2016 to 20.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 22.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Fall River, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 18.2 · 828% of ind

  • DART 15.3 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO Von's United Beverage
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 90 inj
  • SIZE ~140 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Von's United Beverage (0.0 TCR gap)

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Colonial Wholesale Beverage in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Colonial Wholesale Beverage averages 18.2 TCR (828% 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

Colonial Wholesale Beverage TCR series: 2016=10 · 2017=22.3 · 2018=20.4 · 2019=20.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Colonial Wholesale Beverage 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 Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Beverages, alcoholic (except d employers in Massachusetts.

Colonial Wholesale Beverage (140 employees, TCR 18.2) 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 Colonial Wholesale Beverage
Colonial Wholesale Beverage (140 employees, TCR 18.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Colonial Wholesale Beverage 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 20.1 15.3 25 0 0
2018 20.4 13.9 24 1 0
2017 22.3 17.5 28 0 1
2016 10.0 6.9 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · MA · Fall River

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 138 employers in Fall River, MA · 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 Von's United Beverage 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coho Distrunuting LLC CAN 18.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Merrimack Valley Dist. Co. 19.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gadsden Budweiser 19.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buckley Associates Inc. 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE 42111A - BRAINTREE (AVON) DC 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northborough, MA 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Big Y Foods, Inc. Pittsfield 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charlton Memorial Hospital 1,944 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Anne's Hospital 1,586 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : BOS7 1,388 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blount Fine Foods 1,169 FTE
NAT-TCR Coal City Fire Protection District 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 0050 - Lacey, Wa 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 118261-Spt-Midtown Sta 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Wohlgemuth Road 18.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Radisson Hotel & Conference Center, Hampton Inn, Twelve01 Kitchen & Tap 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE 94 Crossing 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oil States Skagit Smatco 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mountain Manor of Paintsville 140 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.