Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers · New York

Empire Merchants, LLC - Brooklyn

Brooklyn, NY · ~589 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
24.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire Merchants, LLC - Brooklyn runs at 1110% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Empire Merchants, LLC - Brooklyn: 24.4 TCR = 1110% of Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire Merchants, LLC - Brooklyn safety composite

Empire Merchants, LLC - Brooklyn scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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).

F

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 24.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−0.6

2021→2024

Empire Merchants, LLC - Brooklyn injury rate improved

Empire Merchants, LLC - Brooklyn's TCR fell 0.6 from 25.6 in 2021 to 25.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 26.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=25.6 · 2022=20.2 · 2023=26.9 · 2024=25.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424820 · Brooklyn, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 24.4 · 1110% of ind

  • DART 13.9 DART
  • RANK #37/39
  • PHOTO Merrimack Valley Dis…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 469 inj
  • SIZE ~589 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Merrimack Valley Distributing (1.1 TCR gap)

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Empire Merchants, LLC - Brooklyn in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire Merchants, LLC - Brooklyn averages 24.4 TCR (1110% of the Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Empire Merchants, LLC - Brooklyn TCR series: 2021=25.6 · 2022=20.2 · 2023=26.9 · 2024=25 · BLS 2.2

Where Empire Merchants, LLC - Brooklyn falls in its industry

735 Alcoholic beverages, wine and establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 39 Alcoholic beverages, wine and employers in New York.

Empire Merchants, LLC - Brooklyn (589 employees, TCR 24.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Empire Merchants, LLC - Brooklyn
Empire Merchants, LLC - Brooklyn (589 employees, TCR 24.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Empire Merchants, LLC - Brooklyn has more employees than the Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 25.0 13.9 119 0 0
2023 26.9 14.4 127 0 0
2022 20.2 13.0 98 0 0
2021 25.6 9.4 125 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424820 · NY · Brooklyn

735 Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 941 employers in Brooklyn, 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 Merrimack Valley Distributing 23.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4818-48180030-3030 REVIEW AVE-WC 25.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4609-708 23.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colonial Wholesale Beverage Corporation 22.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coastal Greenhouses, LLC -NY 588 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sevenson overall injury report 588 FTE
STATE-SIZE BROOK GENERAL CONCES 588 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sylvamo Ticonderoga Mill 591 FTE
CITY-NEAR EDI - Brooklyn 946 9,270 FTE
CITY-NEAR S & A Unified Home Care, Inc. 7,782 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maimonides Medical Center 6,641 FTE
CITY-NEAR NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn 5,690 FTE
NAT-TCR Parkside North East 24.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Towneplace Suites by Marriott Milpitas 24.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0601 Westfield 24.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0404 Fort Worth 24.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Roxborough Memorial Hospital 589 FTE
NAT-SIZE NA Mfg Dearborn 589 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern CA Install 589 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fresh From Texas 589 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.