Beer brewing · Washington

Bale Breaker Brewing Company, LLC

Yakima, WA · ~35 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bale Breaker Brewing Company, LLC runs at 244% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beer brewing workplace, earning a grade F.

Bale Breaker Brewing Company, LLC: 8.0 TCR = 244% of Beer brewing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bale Breaker Brewing Company, LLC safety composite

Bale Breaker Brewing Company, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.9

2019→2024

Bale Breaker Brewing Company, LLC injury rate improved

Bale Breaker Brewing Company, LLC's TCR fell 2.9 from 6.2 in 2019 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 15.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.2 · 2020=15.2 · 2021=7.2 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=10.1 · 2024=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Yakima, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 244% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Honolulu Beerworks
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Honolulu Beerworks (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bale Breaker Brewing Company, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bale Breaker Brewing Company, LLC averages 8.0 TCR (244% of the Beer brewing BLS benchmark).

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

Bale Breaker Brewing Company, LLC TCR series: 2019=6.2 · 2020=15.2 · 2021=7.2 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=10.1 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Bale Breaker Brewing Company, LLC falls in its industry

313 Beer brewing establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Beer brewing employers in Washington.

Bale Breaker Brewing Company, LLC (35 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bale Breaker Brewing Company, LLC
Bale Breaker Brewing Company, LLC (35 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Bale Breaker Brewing Company, LLC has fewer employees than the Beer brewing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2023 10.1 6.8 3 0 0
2022 6.3 6.3 2 0 0
2021 7.2 7.2 1 1 0
2020 15.2 11.4 4 0 0
2019 6.2 6.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · WA · Yakima

313 Beer brewing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 192 employers in Yakima, WA · 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 Honolulu Beerworks 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Utah Brewers Cooperative 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Short's Brewing Company Production Facility 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ballast Point - Scripps Ranch 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm Shop 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE BNW Quincy 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pacific Aquaculture Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE F/V Arica 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yakima Valley Hospital WA 2,748 FTE
CITY-NEAR Borton Fruit 1,473 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yakima County 997 FTE
CITY-NEAR Borton Orchards 918 FTE
NAT-TCR 2280 - Hawthorne 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 0882 - Lake Jackson 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hillsboro Medical Center - Hospital 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant PX 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE All Clean Hazardous Waste Removal, Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Turf Star, Inc- Brea 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE National Coating Corporation 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Putnam County Emergency Medical Services 35 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, 2020, 2019. 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.