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

West Side Beer Distributing-Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo, MI · ~54 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Side Beer Distributing-Kalamazoo runs at 303% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

West Side Beer Distributing-Kalamazoo: 6.7 TCR = 303% of Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Side Beer Distributing-Kalamazoo safety composite

West Side Beer Distributing-Kalamazoo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

West Side Beer Distributing-Kalamazoo: 4.7 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2024

West Side Beer Distributing-Kalamazoo's TCR rose 1.4 from 4.7 in 2022 to 6.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Kalamazoo, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 303% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #11/23
  • PHOTO A&B Distributors Inc…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: A&B Distributors Inc of Muskogee (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Side Beer Distributing-Kalamazoo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Side Beer Distributing-Kalamazoo averages 6.7 TCR (303% 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

West Side Beer Distributing-Kalamazoo TCR series: 2022=4.7 · 2023=9.2 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 2.2

Where West Side Beer Distributing-Kalamazoo falls in its industry

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except d establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 23 Beverages, alcoholic (except d employers in Michigan.

West Side Beer Distributing-Kalamazoo (54 employees, TCR 6.7) 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 West Side Beer Distributing-Kalamazoo
West Side Beer Distributing-Kalamazoo (54 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

West Side Beer Distributing-Kalamazoo has fewer employees than the Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled s median and a higher 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 6.1 6.1 3 0 0
2023 9.2 9.2 4 0 0
2022 4.7 4.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · MI · Kalamazoo

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 353 employers in Kalamazoo, MI · 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 A&B Distributors Inc of Muskogee 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 126 - Lancaster 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR BHD, LLC (dba. Beer House Distributors) 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glazers Beer And Beverage Victoria 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Residential Home Builder 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kalamazoo Facility 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE LS Brinker 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE ITC Operations-319 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bronson Methodist Hospital 4,909 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pfizer Kalamazoo - Portage Road 3,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Instruments 2,240 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-MIKAL1 2,103 FTE
NAT-TCR Stearns Mfg 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR UA Houston Club E12 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR O'Keefe Millwork 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 4742 Lacey 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE CMS Ca Manufacturing Solutions, LLC 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wendt Electrical Services, Inc. 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE C&C Sage, Inc. dba True Blue (San Antonio) 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miro Mfg., Inc 54 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.