Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Merrimack Valley Distributing

Danvers, MA · ~119 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merrimack Valley Distributing runs at 1062% 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.

Merrimack Valley Distributing: 23.4 TCR = 1062% of Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merrimack Valley Distributing safety composite

Merrimack Valley Distributing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 23.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 19.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Merrimack Valley Distributing: 18.0 → 24.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 31.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2020

Merrimack Valley Distributing's TCR rose 6.0 from 18.0 in 2016 to 24.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 31.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 23.4 · 1062% of ind

  • DART 19.8 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO 4609-708
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 129 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4609-708 (0.3 TCR gap)

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Merrimack Valley Distributing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merrimack Valley Distributing averages 23.4 TCR (1062% 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

Merrimack Valley Distributing TCR series: 2016=18 · 2017=18.5 · 2018=24.7 · 2019=31.6 · 2020=24 · BLS 2.2

Where Merrimack Valley Distributing falls in its industry

735 Alcoholic beverages, wine and establishments

Safer than 0% 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 #9 safest of 9 Alcoholic beverages, wine and employers in Massachusetts.

Merrimack Valley Distributing (119 employees, TCR 23.4) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Merrimack Valley Distributing
Merrimack Valley Distributing (119 employees, TCR 23.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Merrimack Valley Distributing 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
2020 24.0 19.8 23 0 0
2019 31.6 30.7 36 0 0
2018 24.7 23.8 28 0 0
2017 18.5 18.5 21 0 0
2016 18.0 16.3 21 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424820 · MA · Danvers

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 · 119 employers in Danvers, 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 4609-708 23.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colonial Wholesale Beverage Corporation 22.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Empire Merchants, LLC - Brooklyn 24.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 708 YOUNG S MARKET-CHINO 21.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Berkshire Gas Company 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Adtech Systems LLC 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holyoke Massachusetts 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE N.B. Kenney Co., Inc 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR Abiomed, Inc. (Danvers HQ) 1,915 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northeast Arc 1,016 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medtronic-CVG 964 FTE
CITY-NEAR Millipore Sigma 17 Cherry Hill Drive Danvers 943 FTE
NAT-TCR Ainsworth Brown County Care Center 23.4 TCR
NAT-TCR National Coney Island - Macomb Twp. 23.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CMS Home Care Oeste 23.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6957-PVD 23.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Michels Power- CT 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Village at Northrise 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Patriot, a Choice Community 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nelnet - Burleson 119 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.