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

Fahr Beverage Inc.

Waterloo, IA · ~85 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fahr Beverage Inc. runs at 777% 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.

Fahr Beverage Inc.: 17.1 TCR = 777% of Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fahr Beverage Inc. safety composite

Fahr Beverage Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−10.9

2020→2021

Fahr Beverage Inc. injury rate improved

Fahr Beverage Inc.'s TCR fell 10.9 from 22.5 in 2020 to 11.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 22.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=22.5 · 2021=11.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.1 · 777% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Burke Distributing C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Burke Distributing Co. LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fahr Beverage Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fahr Beverage Inc. averages 17.1 TCR (777% 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

Fahr Beverage Inc. TCR series: 2020=22.5 · 2021=11.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Fahr Beverage Inc. 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 Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Beverages, alcoholic (except d employers in Iowa.

Fahr Beverage Inc. (85 employees, TCR 17.1) 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 Fahr Beverage Inc.
Fahr Beverage Inc. (85 employees, TCR 17.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Fahr Beverage Inc. has fewer 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
2021 11.6 5.8 10 0 0
2020 22.5 7.5 6 12 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · IA · Waterloo

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 172 employers in Waterloo, IA · 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 Burke Distributing Co. LLC 17.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Certo Brothers Distributing Co 17.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Craft Beer Guild Distributing of Maine 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 110 - GB East Bay 16.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc. -- Toledo SPSC 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4141_7899 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enterprise Products (Northern MAPL) 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Hawk County Extension 4,790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waterloo Pork Plant 2,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR UnityPoint 2,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR JD Waterloo Tractor and Cab Assembly Operations 1,605 FTE
NAT-TCR The Blake School 17.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Utgeo - St. George Center 17.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 258530-Scottville Po 17.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1855-AHSCM39 17.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ely Manor 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Centerville Elementary School 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE JTS Direct, LLC 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kelley Foods 85 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: 2021, 2020. 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.