Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers · Texas

High Life

Houston, TX · ~422 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

High Life runs at 400% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

High Life: 8.8 TCR = 400% of Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

High Life safety composite

High Life scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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%).

High Life held a steady TCR band

High Life's TCR held near 0.1 from 8.8 in 2016 to 8.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.8 · 2021=8.9 · 2023=8.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 400% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #69/82
  • PHOTO 106 - GB Stockton
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 77 inj
  • SIZE ~422 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 106 - GB Stockton (0.0 TCR gap)

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High Life in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows High Life averages 8.8 TCR (400% of the Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

High Life TCR series: 2016=8.8 · 2021=8.9 · 2023=8.7 · BLS 2.2

Where High Life falls in its industry

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except d establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #69 safest of 82 Beverages, alcoholic (except d employers in Texas.

High Life (422 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate High Life
High Life (422 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

High Life has more employees than the Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled s median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.4. 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 8.7 3.8 20 21 0
2021 8.9 5.2 23 15 0
2016 8.8 7.6 34 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · TX · Houston

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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 106 - GB Stockton 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jack Hilliard Distributing Company Inc. 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR LEE BEVERAGE OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anheuser-Busch Sales of Washington - Renton 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE RECARO Aircraft Seating Americas, LLC 422 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headquarters - PLANO TX 422 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 398 422 FTE
STATE-SIZE CAF MANAGEMENT, LLC 422 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Ralph H. Simpson Company 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100631 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 2577 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Channel One Inc 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE City Of Sacramento-Operations Roll-Up (120012) 422 FTE
NAT-SIZE UCare Minnesota - 500 Stinson 422 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aurora Medical Center Two Rivers 422 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thayer Power and Communication Line Construction Co., LLC 422 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, 2021, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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