Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers · New York

Southern Tier

Olean, NY · ~40 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Tier runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Southern Tier: 2.8 TCR = 127% of Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Tier safety composite

Southern Tier scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Southern Tier: 0.3 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2.84× in 2024

Southern Tier's TCR rose 7.6 from 0.3 in 2021 to 7.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Olean, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.8 · 127% of ind

  • DART 7.9 DART
  • RANK #7/45
  • PHOTO O'Connor Distributin…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: O'Connor Distributing- White River Division (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Tier in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Tier averages 2.8 TCR (127% of the Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Tier TCR series: 2021=0.3 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=7.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Southern Tier falls in its industry

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except d establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 45 Beverages, alcoholic (except d employers in New York.

Southern Tier (40 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 Southern Tier
Southern Tier (40 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Southern Tier has fewer employees than the Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled s 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
2024 7.9 7.9 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2021 0.3 0.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · NY · Olean

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 46 employers in Olean, NY · 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 O'Connor Distributing- White River Division 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bama Budweiser of Selma, Inc 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lancaster HDD 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crescent Crown Distributing, L.L.C. // Lafayette 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bilow Farms, LLC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farm 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Constantine Construction and Farm, Inc. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burrows Bros. Inc. 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olean General Hospital 878 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cutco Corporation 775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dresser-Rand Olean Operations 763 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2159 384 FTE
NAT-TCR Republic Services of Plano 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Branch 3745 - Las Vegas 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mecklenburg County Jail Central 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Goff inc 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lewisville Antenna Repair Center 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pinecrest 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hogan Land Services 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE ALTUS - Melrose 40 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, 2021. 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.