Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Heidelberg Distributing Company Lorain

Lorain, OH · ~125 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heidelberg Distributing Company Lorain runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Heidelberg Distributing Company Lorain: 2.6 TCR = 118% of Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heidelberg Distributing Company Lorain safety composite

Heidelberg Distributing Company Lorain scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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 Lorain: 0.9 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2023

Heidelberg Distributing Company Lorain's TCR rose 1.9 from 0.9 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 118% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #13/29
  • PHOTO Interwine / Opici Fa…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~125 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Interwine / Opici Family Distributing of CT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heidelberg Distributing Company Lorain in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heidelberg Distributing Company Lorain averages 2.6 TCR (118% 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 Lorain TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=3 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=2.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Heidelberg Distributing Company Lorain falls in its industry

735 Alcoholic beverages, wine and establishments

Safer than 74% 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 #13 safest of 29 Alcoholic beverages, wine and employers in Ohio.

Heidelberg Distributing Company Lorain (125 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Lorain
Heidelberg Distributing Company Lorain (125 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Heidelberg Distributing Company Lorain 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 2.8 2.8 4 0 0
2022 3.2 2.4 4 0 0
2021 3.0 3.0 4 0 0
2020 2.5 0.0 3 0 0
2019 4.1 4.1 5 0 0
2018 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2017 2.6 2.6 3 0 0
2016 0.9 0.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424820 · OH · Lorain

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 · 85 employers in Lorain, 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 Interwine / Opici Family Distributing of CT 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heritage Wine Cellars 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Republic National Distributing Company 9 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4818-KYLX 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE AKRON - WILBETH SHOP 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlas Steel 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Tele-Communications, Inc. 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vertiv Corporation - Lorain 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Regional Medical Center 1,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Regional Medical Center 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lorain Family Health Center & Surgery Center 506 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lorain FHC Surgery 412 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5426 Vinton, VA 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Live Oak Plant 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Clearwater Paper Elwood LLC 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Roads District Equipment Shop 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wilson Trailer Company Plant 6 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE NHC Springfield 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE U.S. LINEN AND UNIFORM-Main Office 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10375 Fremont (WO) 125 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.