Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers · Minnesota

Grape Beginnings

Bloomington, MN · ~19 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Grape Beginnings runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Grape Beginnings: 3.4 TCR = 154% of Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Grape Beginnings safety composite

Grape Beginnings scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Grape Beginnings held a steady TCR band

Grape Beginnings's TCR held near 0.1 from 4.1 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.1 · 2017=10.5 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424820 · Bloomington, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.4 · 154% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/17
  • PHOTO Heidelberg Distribut…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heidelberg Distributing Company Cleveland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Grape Beginnings in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Grape Beginnings averages 3.4 TCR (154% of the Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Grape Beginnings TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2017=10.5 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Grape Beginnings falls in its industry

735 Alcoholic beverages, wine and establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 17 Alcoholic beverages, wine and employers in Minnesota.

Grape Beginnings (19 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Grape Beginnings
Grape Beginnings (19 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Grape Beginnings has fewer employees than the Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2022 4.2 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 10.5 5.3 2 0 0
2016 4.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424820 · MN · Bloomington

735 Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 306 employers in Bloomington, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Heidelberg Distributing Company Cleveland 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Badger Liquor Co., Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mutual Distributing Company - Wilmington 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4818-48180018-4700 INDUSTRIAL DR-WC 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sabin Breeding 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Tilney MN 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danvers 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glyndon, MN 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0081 BLOOMINGTON 8170 BLDG 2,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR HP - 8170 2,277 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bloomington/Normandale 1,474 FTE
CITY-NEAR Donaldson Company Inc. 1,390 FTE
NAT-TCR 4765-INDPW9669 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 2967-MA121 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 635 FAMILY FARE -Coopersville, MI PREVO'S #38-3345860 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 487600-Rio Grande City Po 3.4 TCR

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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.