Soft drinks merchant wholesalers · Pennsylvania

Reading Distribution Center

Reading, PA · ~146 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Reading Distribution Center runs at 487% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Soft drinks merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Reading Distribution Center: 10.7 TCR = 487% of Soft drinks merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Reading Distribution Center safety composite

Reading Distribution Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Reading Distribution Center: 11.0 → 13.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.22× in 2024

Reading Distribution Center's TCR rose 2.8 from 11.0 in 2022 to 13.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Reading, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 487% of ind

  • DART 13.1 DART
  • RANK #56/68
  • PHOTO AUGUSTA GA (MARTINEZ)
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~146 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AUGUSTA GA (MARTINEZ) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Reading Distribution Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Reading Distribution Center averages 10.7 TCR (487% of the Soft drinks merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Reading Distribution Center TCR series: 2022=11 · 2023=7.3 · 2024=13.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Reading Distribution Center falls in its industry

1,278 Soft drinks merchant wholesale establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 68 Soft drinks merchant wholesale employers in Pennsylvania.

Reading Distribution Center (146 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Reading Distribution Center
Reading Distribution Center (146 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Reading Distribution Center has more employees than the Soft drinks merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 13.8 13.1 20 0 0
2023 7.3 7.3 11 0 0
2022 11.0 8.9 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · PA · Reading

1,278 Soft drinks merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 303 employers in Reading, PA · 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 AUGUSTA GA (MARTINEZ) 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR RC Taylor 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2004 - City of Industry 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NY - Maspeth 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Conemaugh Generating Station 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE DRA Energy Operations Co. 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. - Bryn Mawr 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE United States Roofing Corporation 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR READING HOSPITAL 5,693 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAO : Reading 2,203 FTE
CITY-NEAR A077 - Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center 1,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - TEN1 1,261 FTE
NAT-TCR Trinity Hill Care Center LLC 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Reva Logistics Inc 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR HEU1 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ronald Franks Construction Company, LLC 10.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Berry Printing NATN 555 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harold G. Butzer, Inc. 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gallop Delivery LLC 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steel King Industries, Inc. 146 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.