Wholesale Beverage Distributor · Virginia

P A Short Distributing Co.

Hollins, VA · ~76 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

P A Short Distributing Co. runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Wholesale Beverage Distributor workplace, earning a grade C.

P A Short Distributing Co.: 2.1 TCR = 97% of Wholesale Beverage Distributor BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

P A Short Distributing Co. safety composite

P A Short Distributing Co. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 2.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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%).

P A Short Distributing Co. held a steady TCR band

P A Short Distributing Co.'s TCR held near 0.1 from 2.5 in 2022 to 2.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.5 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Hollins, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.1 · 97% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #1/14
  • PHOTO Premium Beverage Com…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Premium Beverage Company Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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P A Short Distributing Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows P A Short Distributing Co. averages 2.1 TCR (97% of the Wholesale Beverage Distributor BLS benchmark).

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

P A Short Distributing Co. TCR series: 2022=2.5 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 2.2

Where P A Short Distributing Co. falls in its industry

664 Wholesale Beverage Distributor establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 14 Wholesale Beverage Distributor employers in Virginia.

P A Short Distributing Co. (76 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 P A Short Distributing Co.
P A Short Distributing Co. (76 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

P A Short Distributing Co. has fewer employees than the Wholesale Beverage Distributor 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 2.6 2.6 2 0 0
2023 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2022 2.5 2.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · VA · Hollins

664 Wholesale Beverage Distributor employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 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 Premium Beverage Company Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR L&F Distributors - Beeville 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 176 - ID Kauai 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wichita Brewing Company East, LLC 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Red Sun Farms 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harrisonburg Greenhouse 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roanoke Svc Bldg 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asturian Group 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kirby-Vass Insulation, Inc. dba Kirby-Cundiff Insulation 120 FTE
NAT-TCR Jc Duggan, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bourg Dry Dock 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Palmettos of Charleston Assisted Living and Memory Care 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Premium Beverage Company Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vital Engineered Components Company 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delivery Station 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE F.A. Peinado, LLC 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Andaz Napa 76 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, 2022. 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.