Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Heidelberg Distributing Company Columbus

Columbus, OH · ~252 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heidelberg Distributing Company Columbus runs at 168% 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 Columbus: 3.7 TCR = 168% of Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heidelberg Distributing Company Columbus safety composite

Heidelberg Distributing Company Columbus scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2016→2023

Heidelberg Distributing Company Columbus injury rate improved

Heidelberg Distributing Company Columbus's TCR fell 0.7 from 4.4 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.4 · 2017=4.6 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=4.2 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 3.7 · 168% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #18/29
  • PHOTO 4818-HIKP
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 77 inj
  • SIZE ~252 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4818-HIKP (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heidelberg Distributing Company Columbus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heidelberg Distributing Company Columbus averages 3.7 TCR (168% 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 Columbus TCR series: 2016=4.4 · 2017=4.6 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=4.2 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=3.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Heidelberg Distributing Company Columbus falls in its industry

735 Alcoholic beverages, wine and establishments

Safer than 60% 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 #18 safest of 29 Alcoholic beverages, wine and employers in Ohio.

Heidelberg Distributing Company Columbus (252 employees, TCR 3.7) 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 Columbus
Heidelberg Distributing Company Columbus (252 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Heidelberg Distributing Company Columbus 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 3.8 3.4 12 0 0
2022 4.3 3.6 13 0 0
2021 4.2 3.7 10 0 0
2020 3.2 2.0 8 0 0
2019 2.8 1.6 7 0 0
2018 2.5 1.3 6 0 0
2017 4.6 2.9 11 0 0
2016 4.4 4.0 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424820 · OH · Columbus

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 · 1,500 employers in Columbus, 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 4818-HIKP 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR RNDC El Paso 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Winebow-ZEP (Northern CA) 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gallo Sales Company 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMS Construction Inc 252 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lorain Tubular 252 FTE
STATE-SIZE Superior Roll Forming LLC 252 FTE
STATE-SIZE Miba Sinter USA LLC 252 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital 13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus 10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Methodist Hospital 9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1823 Shelby Township, MI 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Foodservice : Stockton-Performance 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Werner Bus Lines 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilex Poly - Jerome 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE International Rectifier HiRel Products,Inc. 252 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DYX2 252 FTE
NAT-SIZE Landscape Construction 252 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zipp 252 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.