Lighting equipment, gas, merchant wholesalers · Montana

General Distributing Company

Great Falls, MT · ~63 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Distributing Company runs at 227% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Lighting equipment, gas, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

General Distributing Company: 5.0 TCR = 227% of Lighting equipment, gas, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Distributing Company safety composite

General Distributing Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

−1.9

2023→2024

General Distributing Company injury rate improved

General Distributing Company's TCR fell 1.9 from 6.0 in 2023 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.0 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423990 · Great Falls, MT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.0 · 227% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO Main Shop - Office
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Main Shop - Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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General Distributing Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows General Distributing Company averages 5.0 TCR (227% of the Lighting equipment, gas, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

General Distributing Company TCR series: 2023=6 · 2024=4 · BLS 2.2

Where General Distributing Company falls in its industry

322 Lighting equipment, gas, merch establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Lighting equipment, gas, merch employers in Montana.

General Distributing Company (63 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate General Distributing Company
General Distributing Company (63 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.0

General Distributing Company has more employees than the Lighting equipment, gas, merchant wholes median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 4.0 4.0 2 0 0
2023 6.0 1.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423990 · MT · Great Falls

322 Lighting equipment, gas, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 121 employers in Great Falls, MT · 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 Main Shop - Office 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bozeman 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Via Trading Corporation 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABCO - Corporate 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sidney Field Office 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE DIV 30 - Montana 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Missoula Bottling Company 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE ABS-0030-0030-00033 FAC-00033-CUT BANK-MT 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2455 388 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7199 341 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2455 340 FTE
CITY-NEAR 7199 301 FTE
NAT-TCR Abrasive Technology - Elgin 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Metrex Corporation 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Milberger Landscaping Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR EB Meadow Woods 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hidalgo 10151 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norman 10020 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tulsa 10417 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minco Tool and Mold 63 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.