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

Paw Paw Wine Distributors Co.

Kalamazoo, MI · ~79 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Paw Paw Wine Distributors Co. runs at 326% 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.

Paw Paw Wine Distributors Co.: 7.2 TCR = 326% of Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paw Paw Wine Distributors Co. safety composite

Paw Paw Wine Distributors Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

Paw Paw Wine Distributors Co. held a steady TCR band

Paw Paw Wine Distributors Co.'s TCR held near 0.1 from 7.2 in 2016 to 7.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.2 · 2017=4.2 · 2018=10.0 · 2019=7.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Kalamazoo, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 326% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #15/23
  • PHOTO Goldring Gulf Distri…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Goldring Gulf Distributing Company of Milton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Paw Paw Wine Distributors Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paw Paw Wine Distributors Co. averages 7.2 TCR (326% 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

Paw Paw Wine Distributors Co. TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2017=4.2 · 2018=10 · 2019=7.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Paw Paw Wine Distributors Co. falls in its industry

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except d establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 23 Beverages, alcoholic (except d employers in Michigan.

Paw Paw Wine Distributors Co. (79 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 Paw Paw Wine Distributors Co.
Paw Paw Wine Distributors Co. (79 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Paw Paw Wine Distributors Co. has fewer 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
2019 7.3 5.9 5 0 0
2018 10.0 4.3 7 0 0
2017 4.2 1.4 3 0 0
2016 7.2 7.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · MI · Kalamazoo

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 353 employers in Kalamazoo, MI · 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 Goldring Gulf Distributing Company of Milton 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hayden Beverage Company - Missoula 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Point Blank Distributing Portland 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR L&F Distirbutors - Alpine 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fontanesi and Kann 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Van Dyken Mechanical 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grapids Home Services 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sharon's Heating & Air Conditioning 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bronson Methodist Hospital 4,909 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pfizer Kalamazoo - Portage Road 3,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Instruments 2,240 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-MIKAL1 2,103 FTE
NAT-TCR NDX H and O 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Copper and Brass Sales - Acworth 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Browder Veneer Company, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : ABE2 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Avery Dennison Neenah DC 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indiana Harbor Dr 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE HQ 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3030 Keystone Automotive 79 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: 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.