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

Merrmack Valley Distributing Company

Danvers, MA · ~124 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Merrmack Valley Distributing Company runs at 933% 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.

Merrmack Valley Distributing Company: 20.5 TCR = 933% of Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merrmack Valley Distributing Company safety composite

Merrmack Valley Distributing Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.83 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%).

TCR Δ

−11.4

2023→2024

Merrmack Valley Distributing Company injury rate improved

Merrmack Valley Distributing Company's TCR fell 11.4 from 26.2 in 2023 to 14.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 26.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=26.2 · 2024=14.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Danvers, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 20.5 · 933% of ind

  • DART 14.8 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Coho Distributing LL…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~124 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coho Distributing LLC Vancouver (0.9 TCR gap)

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Merrmack Valley Distributing Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Merrmack Valley Distributing Company averages 20.5 TCR (933% 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

Merrmack Valley Distributing Company TCR series: 2023=26.2 · 2024=14.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Merrmack Valley Distributing Company falls in its industry

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except d establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

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 Beverages, alcoholic (except d employers in Massachusetts.

Merrmack Valley Distributing Company (124 employees, TCR 20.5) 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 Merrmack Valley Distributing Company
Merrmack Valley Distributing Company (124 employees, TCR 20.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Merrmack Valley Distributing Company has more 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
2024 14.8 14.8 18 0 0
2023 26.2 20.4 27 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · MA · Danvers

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), 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 Coho Distributing LLC Vancouver 21.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR McLaughlin & Moran, Inc. 19.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gadsden Budweiser 19.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Merrimack Valley Dist. Co. 19.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-NAES Boston 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steele Canvas Basket Corporation 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wyman Gordon Company 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Circor Naval Solutions Warren 124 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 Pw Utilities - Water Line & Fire Hydrant Repair 20.5 TCR
NAT-TCR WST 20.5 TCR
NAT-TCR MDWMCCOOKIL 20.5 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Mendota Heights-Fire 20.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Indianapolis 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Manhattan NE 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coral Springs Marriott 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marsh's Edge 124 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.