Beer merchant wholesalers · Minnesota

D-S Beverages, Inc.

Moorhead, MN · ~86 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

D-S Beverages, Inc. runs at 1079% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beer merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

D-S Beverages, Inc.: 23.7 TCR = 1079% of Beer merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

D-S Beverages, Inc. safety composite

D-S Beverages, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 23.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−39.6

2017→2024

D-S Beverages, Inc. injury rate improved

D-S Beverages, Inc.'s TCR fell 39.6 from 44.6 in 2017 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 44.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=44.6 · 2018=21.5 · 2024=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Moorhead, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 23.7 · 1079% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #11/11
  • PHOTO Coho Distributing LL…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coho Distributing LLC Spokane (0.4 TCR gap)

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D-S Beverages, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows D-S Beverages, Inc. averages 23.7 TCR (1079% of the Beer merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

D-S Beverages, Inc. TCR series: 2017=44.6 · 2018=21.5 · 2024=5 · BLS 2.2

Where D-S Beverages, Inc. falls in its industry

664 Beer merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 11 Beer merchant wholesalers employers in Minnesota.

D-S Beverages, Inc. (86 employees, TCR 23.7) 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 D-S Beverages, Inc.
D-S Beverages, Inc. (86 employees, TCR 23.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

D-S Beverages, Inc. has fewer employees than the Beer merchant wholesalers 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
2024 5.0 1.3 4 0 0
2018 21.5 6.2 14 0 0
2017 44.6 17.2 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · MN · Moorhead

664 Beer merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 74 employers in Moorhead, MN · 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 Coho Distributing LLC Spokane 23.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flathead Beverage Distribution 23.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Union Beer Distributors - Secaucus 24.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR LV 22.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 34 RECC 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Palmer Soderberg, Inc. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-State Drilling 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lloyd's Construction Services, Inc. 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Minnesota State University Moorhead 828 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Moorhead 411 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eventide on Eighth 401 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Crystal Sugar Company Moorhead 387 FTE
NAT-TCR Propak - Albuquerque, NM-RLC 23.7 TCR
NAT-TCR REBECCA IRENE Vessel LLC 23.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Seal Rock Healthcare 23.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0621 Washington 23.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carlie C's IGA #790 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE T&G Constructors 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pulaski 014 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Chicago 86 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: 2024, 2018, 2017. 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.