Beverages, wine and distilled spirits, merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Imperial Beverage

Kalamazoo, MI · ~347 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Imperial Beverage runs at 303% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beverages, wine and distilled spirits, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Imperial Beverage: 6.7 TCR = 303% of Beverages, wine and distilled spirits, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Imperial Beverage safety composite

Imperial Beverage scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−2.1

2023→2024

Imperial Beverage injury rate improved

Imperial Beverage's TCR fell 2.1 from 7.7 in 2023 to 5.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.7 · 2024=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424820 · Kalamazoo, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 303% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #10/15
  • PHOTO RNDC Brownstown
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~347 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RNDC Brownstown (0.0 TCR gap)

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Imperial Beverage in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Imperial Beverage averages 6.7 TCR (303% of the 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

Imperial Beverage TCR series: 2023=7.7 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Imperial Beverage falls in its industry

735 Beverages, wine and distilled establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 15 Beverages, wine and distilled employers in Michigan.

Imperial Beverage (347 employees, TCR 6.7) 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 Imperial Beverage
Imperial Beverage (347 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Imperial Beverage has more employees than the Beverages, wine and distilled spirits, m 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 5.6 4.4 18 0 0
2023 7.7 5.9 25 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424820 · MI · Kalamazoo

735 Beverages, wine and distilled spirits, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 353 employers in Kalamazoo, MI · 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 RNDC Brownstown 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gallo Wine Sales of NJ Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Empire Distributors NC ASHEVILLE 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR G&M Distributors 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE FILER CITY, MI 347 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1987 347 FTE
STATE-SIZE SMS Staffing Solutions, Inc. 347 FTE
STATE-SIZE Work Skills Corporation Brighton 347 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bronson Methodist Hospital 4,909 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pfizer Kalamazoo - Portage Road 3,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Instruments 2,240 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-MIKAL1 2,103 FTE
NAT-TCR WB Interiors, LLC 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6062 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6316 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Vehtek Systems Inc 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sensus-Uniontown 347 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hospitality Ventures LLC 347 FTE
NAT-SIZE AC Retail - United States 347 FTE
NAT-SIZE Level Green Landscape LLC 347 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. 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.