Beer merchant wholesalers · Vermont

Farrell Distributing

South Burlington, VT · ~215 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Farrell Distributing runs at 292% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beer merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Farrell Distributing: 6.4 TCR = 292% of Beer merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Farrell Distributing safety composite

Farrell Distributing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Farrell Distributing: 7.0 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.46× in 2024

Farrell Distributing's TCR rose 2.4 from 7.0 in 2017 to 9.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · South Burlington, VT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.4 · 292% of ind

  • DART 9.4 DART
  • RANK P49
  • PHOTO Eagle Rock Distribut…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~215 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eagle Rock Distributing Co. - Norcross (0.0 TCR gap)

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Farrell Distributing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Farrell Distributing averages 6.4 TCR (292% of the Beer merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Farrell Distributing TCR series: 2017=7 · 2020=2.9 · 2024=9.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Farrell Distributing falls in its industry

664 Beer merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Farrell Distributing (215 employees, TCR 6.4) 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 Farrell Distributing
Farrell Distributing (215 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Farrell Distributing has more 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 9.4 9.4 22 0 0
2020 2.9 2.9 6 0 0
2017 7.0 7.0 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · VT · South Burlington

664 Beer merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 49 employers in South Burlington, VT · 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 Eagle Rock Distributing Co. - Norcross 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ritchie & Page 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Andrews Distributing-Dallas Facility 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koerner Distributor, Inc. - Effingham 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE SODEXO AT UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT-SIMPSON 215 FTE
STATE-SIZE Williston VT 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vermont Precision Tools, Inc 218 FTE
STATE-SIZE Capital Candy Co., Inc 218 FTE
CITY-NEAR Burlington VT 5,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR PC Construction Company 643 FTE
CITY-NEAR BETA Technologies, Inc 484 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dynapower Company 182 FTE
NAT-TCR Douglas Press Inc 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Otterbein Cridersville 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ventura Foods 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR InterContinental New York Times Square 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Williamsport Home 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE Feintool Tennessee, Inc. 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hoffman Construction Company 215 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tecomet 215 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, 2020, 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.