Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Mutual Distributing Company - Asheville

Arden, NC · ~37 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mutual Distributing Company - Asheville runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Mutual Distributing Company - Asheville: 2.0 TCR = 92% of Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mutual Distributing Company - Asheville safety composite

Mutual Distributing Company - Asheville scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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

−2.8

2016→2021

Mutual Distributing Company - Asheville injury rate improved

Mutual Distributing Company - Asheville's TCR fell 2.8 from 2.8 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.8 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=7.4 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424820 · Arden, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/27
  • PHOTO Empire Merchants Nor…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Empire Merchants North-Syracuse (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mutual Distributing Company - Asheville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mutual Distributing Company - Asheville averages 2.0 TCR (92% 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

Mutual Distributing Company - Asheville TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=7.4 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Mutual Distributing Company - Asheville falls in its industry

735 Alcoholic beverages, wine and establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 27 Alcoholic beverages, wine and employers in North Carolina.

Mutual Distributing Company - Asheville (37 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Mutual Distributing Company - Asheville
Mutual Distributing Company - Asheville (37 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Mutual Distributing Company - Asheville has fewer employees than the Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled median and a lower 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 7.4 7.4 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.8 2.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424820 · NC · Arden

735 Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 77 employers in Arden, NC · 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 Empire Merchants North-Syracuse 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4818-FBON 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Republic National Distributing Company 7 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Specs #00 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAR Greenhouse LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Statesville Breeders 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dan River CT/CC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE hep Petra, LLC 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASHEVILLE NC 997 FTE
CITY-NEAR DUKE-ASHEVILLE 847 FTE
CITY-NEAR BorgWarner Asheville 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jabil Healthcare Asheville 566 FTE
NAT-TCR Escalante Generating Station 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Demaree Crossing Assisted Living 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lorain County Campus 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Moly Manufacturing LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE #740 Nylo Las Colinas 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE SSA Centralized Operations 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Probation Youth Leadership Academy 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE TrussTek, Inc. 37 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.