Beer merchant wholesalers · Texas

R&K Distributors

Longview, TX · ~185 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R&K Distributors runs at 261% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beer merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

R&K Distributors: 5.8 TCR = 261% of Beer merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R&K Distributors safety composite

R&K Distributors scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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%).

R&K Distributors held a steady TCR band

R&K Distributors's TCR held near 0.1 from 4.0 in 2020 to 3.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.0 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=8.1 · 2023=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Longview, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.8 · 261% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #38/82
  • PHOTO San Antonio Specialt…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~185 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: San Antonio Specialty Beverages (0.0 TCR gap)

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R&K Distributors in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R&K Distributors averages 5.8 TCR (261% of the Beer merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

R&K Distributors TCR series: 2020=4 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=8.1 · 2023=3.9 · BLS 2.2

Where R&K Distributors falls in its industry

664 Beer merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 82 Beer merchant wholesalers employers in Texas.

R&K Distributors (185 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 R&K Distributors
R&K Distributors (185 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

R&K Distributors has more employees than the Beer merchant wholesalers median and a lower 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
2023 3.9 2.2 7 0 0
2022 8.1 6.5 10 0 0
2021 6.9 4.6 12 0 0
2020 4.0 4.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · TX · Longview

664 Beer merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 259 employers in Longview, TX · 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 San Antonio Specialty Beverages 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glazers Beer And Beverage San Antonio 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coho Distributing LLc Tri- cities 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Hampshire Distributors, LLC 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trinity Valley Electric Cooperative 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Morrison 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advantages Associated Inc. 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Richard Automation, LLC 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR Longview - GSMC 155 2,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Good Shepherd Medical Center - Longview 1,948 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastman Chemical Company 1,535 FTE
CITY-NEAR Texas Operations 1,500 FTE
NAT-TCR Harbor House Chemical Dependency Services 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR RK-047-Harrisburg ( RK-047 ) 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lynden Agronomy/LP 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Culpeper Baptist Retirement Community (dba The Culpeper) 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eberhard Manufacturing Company 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE George Chiala Farms, Inc. 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grnvl/Sprtbg SC FXFE-GSP 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE IA - Google Council Bluffs SLNDC 185 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.