Beer merchant wholesalers · Delaware

N.K.S. Distributors

Smyrna, DE · ~139 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

N.K.S. Distributors runs at 224% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beer merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

N.K.S. Distributors: 4.9 TCR = 224% of Beer merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

N.K.S. Distributors safety composite

N.K.S. Distributors scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

−4.9

2023→2024

N.K.S. Distributors injury rate improved

N.K.S. Distributors's TCR fell 4.9 from 7.4 in 2023 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.4 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Smyrna, DE ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.9 · 224% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK P65
  • PHOTO Glazers Beer And Bev…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Glazers Beer And Beverage Shreveport (0.0 TCR gap)

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N.K.S. Distributors in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows N.K.S. Distributors averages 4.9 TCR (224% of the Beer merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

N.K.S. Distributors TCR series: 2023=7.4 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 2.2

Where N.K.S. Distributors falls in its industry

664 Beer merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
N.K.S. Distributors (139 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 N.K.S. Distributors
N.K.S. Distributors (139 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

N.K.S. Distributors has more employees than the Beer merchant wholesalers 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
2024 2.5 0.8 3 0 0
2023 7.4 6.7 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · DE · Smyrna

664 Beer merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,487 rated employers in Delaware with headcount on file · 30 employers in Smyrna, DE · 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 Glazers Beer And Beverage Shreveport 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR A. J. MISSERT, INC. 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silver Eagle Beverages - San Antonio 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR LA CROSSE BEVERAGE 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE NAI-0034-0034-00826 FAC-00826-WILMINGTON-DE 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE 25320015 WILMINGTON, DE 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ralph G. Degli Obizzi & Sons, Inc. 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Letica - Delaware 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR 7034 1,104 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEL0000023 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - SMYRNA 1,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7034 980 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7834 274 FTE
NAT-TCR IHS Ballard Nursing Center Inc 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Everbrite - Elkhorn 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Rocky Mount 01 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Raker-Roberta's Young Plants 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Jose Dc 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carpenter Industries Inc 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aurora Technologies, Incorporated 139 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.