Wine and Distilled Alcoholic Beverage Merchant Wholesalers · New York

Empire Merchants North-Lyons

Lyons, NY · ~116 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire Merchants North-Lyons runs at 810% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Wine and Distilled Alcoholic Beverage Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Empire Merchants North-Lyons: 17.8 TCR = 810% of Wine and Distilled Alcoholic Beverage Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire Merchants North-Lyons safety composite

Empire Merchants North-Lyons scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

−5.4

2016→2023

Empire Merchants North-Lyons injury rate improved

Empire Merchants North-Lyons's TCR fell 5.4 from 17.5 in 2016 to 12.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 28.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=17.5 · 2019=13.8 · 2020=24.3 · 2021=28.6 · 2022=10.6 · 2023=12.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 17.8 · 810% of ind

  • DART 10.6 DART
  • RANK #36/39
  • PHOTO High Grade Beverage-…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 106 inj
  • SIZE ~116 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: High Grade Beverage- Randolph (0.2 TCR gap)

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Empire Merchants North-Lyons in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire Merchants North-Lyons averages 17.8 TCR (810% of the Wine and Distilled Alcoholic Beverage Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Empire Merchants North-Lyons TCR series: 2016=17.5 · 2019=13.8 · 2020=24.3 · 2021=28.6 · 2022=10.6 · 2023=12.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Empire Merchants North-Lyons falls in its industry

735 Wine and Distilled Alcoholic B establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #36 safest of 39 Wine and Distilled Alcoholic B employers in New York.

Empire Merchants North-Lyons (116 employees, TCR 17.8) 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Empire Merchants North-Lyons
Empire Merchants North-Lyons (116 employees, TCR 17.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Empire Merchants North-Lyons has more employees than the Wine and Distilled Alcoholic Beverage Me 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
2023 12.1 10.6 16 0 0
2022 10.6 10.6 14 0 0
2021 28.6 27.5 24 0 0
2020 24.3 22.0 21 0 0
2019 13.8 12.8 13 0 0
2016 17.5 16.5 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424820 · NY · Lyons

735 Wine and Distilled Alcoholic Beverage Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 12 employers in Lyons, 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 High Grade Beverage- Randolph 17.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Republic National Distributing Company 20 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Johnson Brothers Mutual Distributing - Kernersville 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SPECS 161W 17.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE RED-Rochester, LLC 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE GLOVERSVILLE SERVICE CENTER-NY09 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cauldwell Wingate Company, LLC 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newport Office 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Silgan Containers Lyons 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR SODEXO AT WAYNE COUNTY NURSING HOME EVS 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midland Asphalt Materials INC - Lyons 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lyons Facility 48 FTE
NAT-TCR Moore Construction 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Yummy.com PV 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Parsons House Austin 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 141 17.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookwood Medical EVS 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fiesta # 28 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thomasville (County Line Campus) 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Summitville Tiles, Inc. 116 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.