Beer merchant wholesalers · Texas

Houston Specialty Beverages

Houston, TX · ~58 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houston Specialty Beverages runs at 410% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beer merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Houston Specialty Beverages: 9.0 TCR = 410% of Beer merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houston Specialty Beverages safety composite

Houston Specialty Beverages scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Houston Specialty Beverages: 6.3 → 17.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 17.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.53× in 2021

Houston Specialty Beverages's TCR rose 10.9 from 6.3 in 2016 to 17.2 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 410% of ind

  • DART 13.8 DART
  • RANK #70/82
  • PHOTO Andrews Distributing…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Andrews Distributing-FTW NE Loop 820 Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houston Specialty Beverages in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houston Specialty Beverages averages 9.0 TCR (410% of the Beer merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Houston Specialty Beverages TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2017=1.6 · 2018=8.9 · 2019=14.8 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=17.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Houston Specialty Beverages falls in its industry

664 Beer merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #70 safest of 82 Beer merchant wholesalers employers in Texas.

Houston Specialty Beverages (58 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 Houston Specialty Beverages
Houston Specialty Beverages (58 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Houston Specialty Beverages has fewer employees than the Beer merchant wholesalers 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
2021 17.2 13.8 10 0 0
2020 5.2 5.2 3 0 0
2019 14.8 11.1 8 0 0
2018 8.9 5.6 8 0 0
2017 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2016 6.3 4.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · TX · Houston

664 Beer 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 Andrews Distributing-FTW NE Loop 820 Facility 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chas A Bernick , Brainerd 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bond Distributing, LLC 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Beer Northeast Central 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cactus Feedyard 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flatonia Farm Plant 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waelder 2 Complex 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Complex 1 58 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 North Canyon Care Center 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutter Medical Foundation (185-233) 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR St Lucie Medical Center 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Casa Imports 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kaiser Garage Doors & Gates 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Location 3 Lemon Grove 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE SFS Group - Dennis Drive 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Odell 58 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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