Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Horizon Beverage Company, Inc.

Norton, MA · ~520 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Horizon Beverage Company, Inc. runs at 425% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Horizon Beverage Company, Inc.: 9.3 TCR = 425% of Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Horizon Beverage Company, Inc. safety composite

Horizon Beverage Company, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 16% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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).

F

11/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 0% 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

2020→2024

Horizon Beverage Company, Inc. injury rate improved

Horizon Beverage Company, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.7 from 7.9 in 2020 to 7.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=7.9 · 2023=12.8 · 2024=7.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424820 · Norton, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 425% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #5/9
  • PHOTO Savannah Distributin…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 118 inj
  • SIZE ~520 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Savannah Distributing Atlanta (0.0 TCR gap)

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Horizon Beverage Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Horizon Beverage Company, Inc. averages 9.3 TCR (425% 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

Horizon Beverage Company, Inc. TCR series: 2020=7.9 · 2023=12.8 · 2024=7.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Horizon Beverage Company, Inc. falls in its industry

735 Alcoholic beverages, wine and establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 9 Alcoholic beverages, wine and employers in Massachusetts.

Horizon Beverage Company, Inc. (520 employees, TCR 9.3) 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 Horizon Beverage Company, Inc.
Horizon Beverage Company, Inc. (520 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Horizon Beverage Company, Inc. has more employees than the Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled median and a higher 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
2024 7.3 6.8 34 0 0
2023 12.8 10.5 55 1 1
2020 7.9 6.3 29 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424820 · MA · Norton

735 Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 33 employers in Norton, MA · 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 Savannah Distributing Atlanta 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shakopee, MN 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Empire Distributors NC DURHAM 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dahlheimer Beverage 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Imperial Distributors 519 FTE
STATE-SIZE MRPG 519 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centerline Communications 518 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLC - Marlborough Site 523 FTE
CITY-NEAR AI Distribution Center 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR New England Ice Cream Corporation 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR S09205 - Norton Hauling 181 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plantation Products, LLC. 181 FTE
NAT-TCR Westchester Tractor, Inc. 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Old Fashioned Kitchen 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dal-Bac Manufacturing Co., Inc. - Farm 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Quality Custom Distribution - WDC 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE MMC- Eau Claire 520 FTE
NAT-SIZE Action Labor of Tampa 520 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Simi Valley 520 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant City 520 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: 2024, 2023, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.