Industry profile · NAICS 423610

Distribution equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers

Workplace injury rates across 1,413 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

1,413
Employers
3.1
Avg TCR
2.2
BLS benchmark
10,344
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Distribution equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers average 3.1 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.4 times the BLS national benchmark of 2.2.

3.1
avg TCR · reporting employers
2.2
BLS national benchmark
1,413
employers reporting
10,344
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Distribution equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers Safety Data Reveals

The Distribution equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers sector (NAICS 423610) encompasses 1,413 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 10,344 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 3.1 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 2.2 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 3.1 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.

The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Distribution equipment, electrical, merchant wholesalers that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
US - Branch Network : 0139 Chicago, IL A 0.6
US - Branch Network : 0848 Perrysburg, OH A 0.6
RESCO - Middleton Middleton, WI A 0.6
US - Branch Network : 0160 Cleveland, OH A 0.6
US - Branch Network : 0416 Knoxville, TN A 0.6
Relay & Power Systems Conshohocken, PA A 0.6
US - Branch Network : 0326 Green Bay, WI A 0.6
WESCO Dallas TX 5687 Irving, TX A 0.6
753 - Tukwila, Wa Tukwila, WA A 0.6
TPC Wire & Cable Corp Macedonia, OH A 0.6
WESCO Bakersfield CA 6707 Bakersfield, CA A 0.6
Baldwin-Hall (Pc8482) Syracuse, NY A 0.5
Border States Electric - Fargo Fargo, ND A 0.5
US - Branch Network : 0145 Downers Grove, IL A 0.5
C&E Sales, Inc. Dayton, OH A 0.5
US - Branch Network : 0128 Charlotte, NC A 0.5
US - Branch Network : 0898 Baltimore, MD A 0.5
Corporate Location Memphis, TN A 0.5
Technical Consumer Products, Inc Aurora, OH A 0.5
US - Branch Network : 0016 Albany, NY A 0.5
4192-00051282-10050 Cedar Rapids, IA A 0.5
US - Branch Network : 0723 San Diego, CA A 0.5
US - Branch Network : 0168 W Columbia, SC A 0.5
US - Branch Network : 0217 Denver, CO A 0.5
Emerson Professional Tools MFG LLC Ash Flat, AR A 0.5
US - Branch Network : 0036 Marietta, GA A 0.5
Dominion Electric Supply Co.,Inc Arlington, VA A 0.5
099-STATE-CORPORATE Huntington, WV A 0.5
Service Center Operations : 0971 Waterloo, IA A 0.4
CSC Raleigh 1968 Raleigh, NC A 0.4
Peachtree City Dc Ga Peachtree City, GA A 0.4
Dallas, TX Fort Worth, TX A 0.4
Border States Electric - Bismarck Bismarck, ND A 0.4
Sports Lighting Austin, TX A 0.4
US - Branch Network : 0864 Tulsa, OK A 0.4
Raritan Americas, Inc. Somerset, NJ A 0.4
AutomationDirect Cumming, GA A 0.4
St Louis, MO Saint Louis, MO A 0.4
US - Branch Network : 0756 Seattle, WA A 0.4
Needham Corporate HQ 1519 Canton, MA A 0.4
889_1908 Zeeland, MI A 0.4
Consolidated Electrical Distributors (Pc4161) Lexington, KY A 0.4
US - Branch Network : 0176 Columbus, OH A 0.4
Houston Wiire & Cable Houston Corporate Office/ Regional Distribution Center Houston, TX A 0.4
Dallas Office Dallas, TX A 0.4
Distributor Wire & Cable Headquarters Aurora, CO A 0.4
Milwaukee, WI West Allis, WI A 0.4
4192-00051499-1 Linden, NJ A 0.4
KGP New Century 600 New Century, KS A 0.4
US - Branch Network : 0495 Plymouth, MN A 0.4
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This sector averages 3.1 against a BLS benchmark of 2.2 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.