Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers · Ohio

R. L. Lipton Distributing Co.

Valley View, OH · ~100 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R. L. Lipton Distributing Co. runs at 258% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

R. L. Lipton Distributing Co.: 5.7 TCR = 258% of Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R. L. Lipton Distributing Co. safety composite

R. L. Lipton Distributing Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

R. L. Lipton Distributing Co.: 4.3 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.54× in 2024

R. L. Lipton Distributing Co.'s TCR rose 0.8 from 4.3 in 2022 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424820 · Valley View, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.7 · 258% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #22/29
  • PHOTO Sales and Distributi…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sales and Distribution Center Guaynabo (0.0 TCR gap)

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R. L. Lipton Distributing Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R. L. Lipton Distributing Co. averages 5.7 TCR (258% of the Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

R. L. Lipton Distributing Co. TCR series: 2022=4.3 · 2023=7.7 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 2.2

Where R. L. Lipton Distributing Co. falls in its industry

735 Alcoholic beverages, wine and establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 29 Alcoholic beverages, wine and employers in Ohio.

R. L. Lipton Distributing Co. (100 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate R. L. Lipton Distributing Co.
R. L. Lipton Distributing Co. (100 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 109 employees and a TCR of 4.5

R. L. Lipton Distributing Co. has fewer employees than the Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 5.1 3.1 5 0 0
2023 7.7 4.4 7 0 0
2022 4.3 2.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424820 · OH · Valley View

735 Alcoholic beverages, wine and distilled spirits merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 45 employers in Valley View, OH · 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 Sales and Distribution Center Guaynabo 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR B&B Beverage Company 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NDC Albuquerque 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4818-48180029-123 MONTANO RD-WC 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE NORTHEASTERN - NORTHEAST SHOP 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE All Locations 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Miles-McClellan Construction Company, Inc. 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Precision Pipeline Services 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office 800 FTE
CITY-NEAR Safeguard Properties - Valley View Headquarters 448 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - CAK4 319 FTE
CITY-NEAR Connections In Ohio 219 FTE
NAT-TCR Geneva 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenhill Concrete 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Arab Foodland 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Select Specialty Hospital - Grosse Pointe, Inc 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0523 Fairfield 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0402 Plano 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Villages at Historic Silvercrest 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0660 Virginia Beach 100 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.