Beer merchant wholesalers · Indiana

Five Star Distributing, Inc

Columbia City, IN · ~80 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Five Star Distributing, Inc runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Beer merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Five Star Distributing, Inc: 1.4 TCR = 63% of Beer merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Five Star Distributing, Inc safety composite

Five Star Distributing, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

84/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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%).

Five Star Distributing, Inc held a steady TCR band

Five Star Distributing, Inc's TCR held near 0.0 from 1.4 in 2023 to 1.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.4 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Columbia City, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 63% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO Corporate
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Corporate (0.1 TCR gap)

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Five Star Distributing, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Five Star Distributing, Inc averages 1.4 TCR (63% of the Beer merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Five Star Distributing, Inc TCR series: 2023=1.4 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Five Star Distributing, Inc falls in its industry

664 Beer merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 7 Beer merchant wholesalers employers in Indiana.

Five Star Distributing, Inc (80 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 Five Star Distributing, Inc
Five Star Distributing, Inc (80 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Five Star Distributing, Inc has fewer employees than the Beer merchant wholesalers median and a lower 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 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2023 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · IN · Columbia City

664 Beer merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 67 employers in Columbia City, IN · 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 Corporate 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eugene WOD 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR LSB - Elizabeth St 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 189 - Rockland 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 180-NiSource-Crown Point IN-Operating HQ 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE XL Industrial Services, Inc. 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Directline Communications Inc. 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elbrecht Investments 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steel Dynamics, Inc. - Structural and Rail 944 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steel Dynamics Structural & Rail Division 802 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lear Corporation - Columbia City 529 FTE
CITY-NEAR Undersea Sensor Systems Inc 527 FTE
NAT-TCR IntelliEPI-Allen 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Delacruz Farm Labor Contracting 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cowtown Dallas 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CEI Michigan, LLC 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pacific Recycling 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Viking Industries Inc 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Erie Strayer Company 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peerless Oil & Chemicals Inc 80 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. 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.