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

L&L Distributing

Sioux City, IA · ~39 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

L&L Distributing runs at 247% 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.

L&L Distributing: 5.4 TCR = 247% of Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

L&L Distributing safety composite

L&L Distributing scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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

−9.8

2018→2023

L&L Distributing injury rate improved

L&L Distributing's TCR fell 9.8 from 15.6 in 2018 to 5.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 15.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=15.6 · 2019=2.8 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=3.0 · 2023=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Sioux City, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.4 · 247% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO Doll Distributing LL…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Doll Distributing LLC - Council Bluffs (0.0 TCR gap)

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L&L Distributing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows L&L Distributing averages 5.4 TCR (247% 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

L&L Distributing TCR series: 2018=15.6 · 2019=2.8 · 2021=0 · 2022=3 · 2023=5.8 · BLS 2.2

Where L&L Distributing falls in its industry

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except d establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Beverages, alcoholic (except d employers in Iowa.

L&L Distributing (39 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 L&L Distributing
L&L Distributing (39 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

L&L Distributing has fewer employees than the Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled s median and a lower 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 5.8 0.0 2 0 0
2022 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2018 15.6 7.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · IA · Sioux City

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 259 employers in Sioux City, IA · 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 Doll Distributing LLC - Council Bluffs 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 181 - Orlando 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR LEE BEVERAGE OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Capitol Wright Distributing 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE GGDC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience: MRN1: Marion IA R&D 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Production 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crystal Lake 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seaboard Triumph Foods 2,375 FTE
CITY-NEAR SeaboardTriumph Foods 1,896 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Regional Medical Center 1,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp 691 FTE
NAT-TCR *Einstein Medical Center Montgomery 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR San Mateo Marriott 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Madison Children's Museum 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ONG ER Broken Arrow SC 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vantage 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tropical Shores Beach Resort 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE High Tech Machine II Co., LLC 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sunstate Mechanical Services 39 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, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.