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

Kristen Distributing Company-Temple

Temple, TX · ~21 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kristen Distributing Company-Temple runs at 564% 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.

Kristen Distributing Company-Temple: 12.4 TCR = 564% of Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kristen Distributing Company-Temple safety composite

Kristen Distributing Company-Temple scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

TCR Δ

−15.0

2016→2023

Kristen Distributing Company-Temple injury rate improved

Kristen Distributing Company-Temple's TCR fell 15.0 from 22.0 in 2016 to 7.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 22.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=22.0 · 2017=11.7 · 2019=9.0 · 2023=7.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 12.4 · 564% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #79/82
  • PHOTO Bills Distributing LTD
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bills Distributing LTD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kristen Distributing Company-Temple in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kristen Distributing Company-Temple averages 12.4 TCR (564% 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

Kristen Distributing Company-Temple TCR series: 2016=22 · 2017=11.7 · 2019=9 · 2023=7 · BLS 2.2

Where Kristen Distributing Company-Temple falls in its industry

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except d establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #79 safest of 82 Beverages, alcoholic (except d employers in Texas.

Kristen Distributing Company-Temple (21 employees, TCR 12.4) 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 Kristen Distributing Company-Temple
Kristen Distributing Company-Temple (21 employees, TCR 12.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Kristen Distributing Company-Temple has fewer 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 7.0 7.0 2 0 0
2019 9.0 9.0 2 0 0
2017 11.7 11.7 2 0 0
2016 22.0 22.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · TX · Temple

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 · 177 employers in Temple, 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 Bills Distributing LTD 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR (HFC) - Bluegrass Beverage, LLC - Hopkinsville 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR K and Z Distributing LLC 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Brands of the Black Hills 12.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grass Roots Farming LLC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dawn Cattle Feeders 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Twin Lakes Dairy LP 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEABOARD FOODS LP TEXAS MAINT 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Temple 5,743 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scott & White Memorial Hospital 4,839 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baylor Scott & White Health 4,081 FTE
CITY-NEAR CLINIC-TEMPLE REGION 1,633 FTE
NAT-TCR Aperion Care Highwood 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Groc 1st Shift #9901 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Everlan Hixson, LLC 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Better World Books - York 12.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE SNL Distribution Services Corp-Savannah 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern Tool Sales and Service Co. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Shoppes at Buckland Hills 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE SNL Distribution Services Corp-Opelika 21 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, 2019, 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.