General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · North Carolina

Quality Beverage LLC Kinston

Name: Quality Beverage LLC Kinston Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Kinston, NC · ~64 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.4
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Quality Beverage LLC Kinston runs at 199% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Quality Beverage LLC Kinston: 4.4 TCR = 199% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Quality Beverage LLC Kinston safety composite

Quality Beverage LLC Kinston scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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).

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 4.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers
DART rate: D 6.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Quality Beverage LLC Kinston: 2.5 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.42× in 2022

Quality Beverage LLC Kinston's TCR rose 3.7 from 2.5 in 2021 to 6.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Kinston, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 199% of ind

DART 6.2 DART
RANK #18/54
PHOTO Brooklyn NY
BOOK 2y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brooklyn NY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Brooklyn NY

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Performance Fl

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Restaurant Dep

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Grocer Supply

4.4

What this shows Quality Beverage LLC Kinston averages 4.4 TCR (199% of the General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Quality Beverage LLC Kinston TCR series: 2021=2.5 · 2022=6.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Quality Beverage LLC Kinston falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 54 General-line groceries merchan employers in North Carolina.

Quality Beverage LLC Kinston (64 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Quality Beverage LLC Kinston has fewer employees than the General-line groceries merchant wholesal median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2022	6.2	6.2	3	0	0
2021	2.5	2.5	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · NC · Kinston

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 86 employers in Kinston, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Brooklyn NY	BROOKLYN, NY	4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Performance Florence - 0820	FLORENCE, SC	4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Restaurant Depot 577	EVERETT, MA	4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Grocer Supply Company : Hicks Houston, TX (PDC)	HOUSTON, TX	4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Agrarian Inc	STANTONSBURG	64 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Wilmington Eastern Region Office	WILMINGTON	64 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Randolph Electric Membership Corporation	ASHEBORO	64 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Apex Operations Center	APEX	64 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sanderson Farms Kinston Processing	Kinston	1,564 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Caswell Developmental Center	Kinston	1,256 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UNC Lenoir Health Care	Kinston	843 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UNC Health Lenoir	Kinston	744 FTE
NAT-TCR	SEA-SCS	Seattle, WA	4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Alverser (#22)	Midlothian, VA	4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Benchmark-Richmond	Richmond, IN	4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Blue River Services - CBRI	Corydon, IN	4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	PMG-GI	Albuquerque, NM	64 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Yandell Truckaway Inc.	Benicia, CA	64 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Santa Clara Warehouses Inc.	Benicia, CA	64 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ronnie DeMeo Construction Inc.	Rocky Hill, CT	64 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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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