Beer merchant wholesalers · New Jersey

Peerless Beverage Co

Union, NJ · ~294 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Peerless Beverage Co runs at 379% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beer merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Peerless Beverage Co: 8.3 TCR = 379% of Beer merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Peerless Beverage Co safety composite

Peerless Beverage Co scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.3

2023→2024

Peerless Beverage Co injury rate improved

Peerless Beverage Co's TCR fell 2.3 from 9.5 in 2023 to 7.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=9.5 · 2024=7.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Union, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 379% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #3/9
  • PHOTO Atlas Distributing, …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~294 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atlas Distributing, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Peerless Beverage Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Peerless Beverage Co averages 8.3 TCR (379% of the Beer merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Peerless Beverage Co TCR series: 2023=9.5 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Peerless Beverage Co falls in its industry

664 Beer merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 9 Beer merchant wholesalers employers in New Jersey.

Peerless Beverage Co (294 employees, TCR 8.3) 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 Peerless Beverage Co
Peerless Beverage Co (294 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Peerless Beverage Co has more employees than the Beer merchant wholesalers 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 7.2 5.9 22 0 0
2023 9.5 7.3 26 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · NJ · Union

664 Beer merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 89 employers in Union, NJ · 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 Atlas Distributing, Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baker Distributing South 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 135 - Richmond 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carlson Distributing Company, Inc 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE National Refrigeration and Air Conditioning 294 FTE
STATE-SIZE ShopRite of Parsippany 294 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4765-EWRPW9829 294 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bridgewater Facility 294 FTE
CITY-NEAR 800 Rahway Ave - Bldg D 410 FTE
CITY-NEAR Deep Foods Inc 405 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shop Rite of Union 374 FTE
CITY-NEAR 11754 364 FTE
NAT-TCR Island Park 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Shamrock Cabinet & Fixture Corp. 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Baker Distributing South 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Maxsteel Buildings Murfreesboro 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Howard University Blackburn 294 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clarinda Regional Health Center 294 FTE
NAT-SIZE All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. 294 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michigan Center 294 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.