Books merchant wholesalers · Georgia

Winder Distribution Center

Winder, GA · ~242 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Winder Distribution Center runs at 364% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Books merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Winder Distribution Center: 8.0 TCR = 364% of Books merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Winder Distribution Center safety composite

Winder Distribution Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Winder Distribution Center: 4.8 → 11.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 11.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.47× in 2020

Winder Distribution Center's TCR rose 7.0 from 4.8 in 2016 to 11.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424920 · Winder, GA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 364% of ind

  • DART 11.8 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Southwestern EMS
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 91 inj
  • SIZE ~242 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southwestern EMS (0.2 TCR gap)

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Winder Distribution Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Winder Distribution Center averages 8.0 TCR (364% of the Books merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Winder Distribution Center TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=5.3 · 2018=9.9 · 2019=8.3 · 2020=11.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Winder Distribution Center falls in its industry

57 Books merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Books merchant wholesalers employers in Georgia.

Winder Distribution Center (242 employees, TCR 8.0) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 191 employees and a TCR of 3.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 26 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 Winder Distribution Center
Winder Distribution Center (242 employees, TCR 8.0) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 191 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Winder Distribution Center has more employees than the Books merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2020 11.8 11.8 25 0 0
2019 8.3 7.9 21 0 0
2018 9.9 9.4 21 0 0
2017 5.3 4.5 13 0 0
2016 4.8 4.4 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424920 · GA · Winder

57 Books merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 57 employers in Winder, GA · 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 Southwestern EMS 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR MPS Returns Center 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ypsilanti 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ReaderLink Northeastern Distribution Center 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Refuse Materials, Inc. 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trident Seafoods Carrollton Georgia 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA Chatsworth GA MFG & Gen Office 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE CKS Tulane 242 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chico's Distribution, Inc. 617 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carvana Winder 481 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chico's Distribution Services, LLC (DC-2) 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR Winder Price Industries 384 FTE
NAT-TCR Lancaster Distribution Center - ABARTA Coca-Cola Beverages 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Good News Garage 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Fruit Packing #3 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Orgill West Virginia Distribution Center 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bell Flavors & Fragrances, Inc. 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meritor 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harriman 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meijer Store 271 242 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.