Soft drinks merchant wholesalers · Nebraska

First Choice Vending Company

Lincoln, NE · ~25 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Choice Vending Company runs at 316% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Soft drinks merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

First Choice Vending Company: 7.0 TCR = 316% of Soft drinks merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Choice Vending Company safety composite

First Choice Vending Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

First Choice Vending Company: 3.9 → 14.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 14.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.04× in 2024

First Choice Vending Company's TCR rose 10.3 from 3.9 in 2017 to 14.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Lincoln, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 316% of ind

  • DART 14.2 DART
  • RANK #12/23
  • PHOTO Westrock Coffee Comp…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Westrock Coffee Company - Gregory DC (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Choice Vending Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Choice Vending Company averages 7.0 TCR (316% of the Soft drinks merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

First Choice Vending Company TCR series: 2017=3.9 · 2020=0 · 2023=9.7 · 2024=14.2 · BLS 2.2

Where First Choice Vending Company falls in its industry

1,278 Soft drinks merchant wholesale establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 23 Soft drinks merchant wholesale employers in Nebraska.

First Choice Vending Company (25 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate First Choice Vending Company
First Choice Vending Company (25 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

First Choice Vending Company has fewer employees than the Soft drinks merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 14.2 14.2 2 0 0
2023 9.7 6.5 2 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · NE · Lincoln

1,278 Soft drinks merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 496 employers in Lincoln, NE · 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 Westrock Coffee Company - Gregory DC 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7198-00803940 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR C028 Hagerstown 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Van Buren 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE CSS Farms - Columbus 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE MPM Dairy East LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Site 2 NE 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waldo Farms Nebraska 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nelnet Servicing LLC 2,850 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nelnet - Lincoln HQ 2,491 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bryan East Campus 2,358 FTE
CITY-NEAR FACTS Education Corporation 1,986 FTE
NAT-TCR Tamarack Bloomington 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rehabilitation Hospital of Northern Arizona, LLC 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Amsted Rail 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR San Angelo 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bls - Ocean Springs Millwork 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bowman Orchards, LLc 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE GarCon, LLC 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Champion Window of Lexington 25 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, 2020, 2017. 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.