Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Heidelberg Distributing Company Cleveland

Independence, OH · ~212 workers · 8 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

Heidelberg Distributing Company Cleveland 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.

Heidelberg Distributing Company Cleveland: 3.4 TCR = 154% of Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heidelberg Distributing Company Cleveland safety composite

Heidelberg Distributing Company Cleveland scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

51/100

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
D 4.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Heidelberg Distributing Company Cleveland: 2.2 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.27× in 2023

Heidelberg Distributing Company Cleveland's TCR rose 3.7 from 2.2 in 2016 to 5.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424820 · Independence, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.4 · 154% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #17/29
  • PHOTO Grape Beginnings
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~212 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grape Beginnings (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heidelberg Distributing Company Cleveland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heidelberg Distributing Company Cleveland 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

Heidelberg Distributing Company Cleveland TCR series: 2016=2.2 · 2017=1.7 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=3 · 2020=5 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=5.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Heidelberg Distributing Company Cleveland 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 Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 29 Alcoholic beverages, wine and employers in Ohio.

Heidelberg Distributing Company Cleveland (212 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 Heidelberg Distributing Company Cleveland
Heidelberg Distributing Company Cleveland (212 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Heidelberg Distributing Company Cleveland has more 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
2023 5.9 4.3 11 0 0
2022 2.6 2.6 5 0 0
2021 3.8 3.8 8 0 0
2020 5.0 5.0 11 0 0
2019 3.0 2.1 7 0 0
2018 2.8 2.8 6 0 0
2017 1.7 1.7 4 0 0
2016 2.2 2.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424820 · OH · Independence

735 Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 73 employers in Independence, OH · 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 Grape Beginnings 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 Bilfinger Westcon Canton OH - BSL 212 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&J Pepsi- Franklin Furnace 212 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burrows - Franklin 212 FTE
STATE-SIZE Momentive Performance Materials 212 FTE
CITY-NEAR CC Business Operations Center 1,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR Life Line Screening 901 FTE
CITY-NEAR CC Business Operations Ctr 827 FTE
CITY-NEAR Independence Excavating 695 FTE
NAT-TCR Trinity Oaks of Pearland 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Jack County Generation Facility 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Piedmont Grocery Company 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Long Branch Nj 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Connecticut Hospice 212 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodrich Corporation (Brea CA) 212 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alpha Sintered Metals, LLC 212 FTE
NAT-SIZE JAXPORT 212 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.