Beer merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Earl Smith Distributing Company

Port Huron, MI · ~62 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Earl Smith Distributing Company runs at 225% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beer merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Earl Smith Distributing Company: 5.0 TCR = 225% of Beer merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Earl Smith Distributing Company safety composite

Earl Smith Distributing Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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)
C 4.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Earl Smith Distributing Company: 6.9 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.61× in 2024

Earl Smith Distributing Company's TCR rose 1.1 from 6.9 in 2018 to 8.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Port Huron, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.0 · 225% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #8/23
  • PHOTO 7299_16747
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 7299_16747 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Earl Smith Distributing Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Earl Smith Distributing Company averages 5.0 TCR (225% of the Beer merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Earl Smith Distributing Company TCR series: 2018=6.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=8 · BLS 2.2

Where Earl Smith Distributing Company falls in its industry

664 Beer merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 23 Beer merchant wholesalers employers in Michigan.

Earl Smith Distributing Company (62 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Earl Smith Distributing Company
Earl Smith Distributing Company (62 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Earl Smith Distributing Company has fewer employees than the Beer merchant wholesalers median and a lower 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 8.0 8.0 4 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.9 1.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · MI · Port Huron

664 Beer merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 87 employers in Port Huron, MI · 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 7299_16747 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR A. J. MISSERT, INC. 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 195 - DET Jackson 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR N.K.S. Distributors 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Riveridge Land Company 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshall 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority - Administration & Wastewater Operations 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lombardo Homes of St Louis 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR MCLAREN PORT HURON 1,384 FTE
CITY-NEAR McLaren Port Huron Hospital 1,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of St. Clair 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake Huron Medical Center 688 FTE
NAT-TCR Modern Dispersions Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bridgestone Metalpha USA, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale North Augusta 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Parthenon Tube 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bakers' Signs and Manufacturing, Inc 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keyano 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Competition INFINITI 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA Kansas City 9 Nassau Cir 62 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, 2023, 2018. 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.