Beer brewing · Maine

Baxter Brewing Co LLC

Lewiston, ME · ~28 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Baxter Brewing Co LLC runs at 247% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beer brewing workplace, earning a grade F.

Baxter Brewing Co LLC: 8.1 TCR = 247% of Beer brewing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Baxter Brewing Co LLC safety composite

Baxter Brewing Co LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

−14.1

2020→2023

Baxter Brewing Co LLC injury rate improved

Baxter Brewing Co LLC's TCR fell 14.1 from 18.5 in 2020 to 4.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 18.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=18.5 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Lewiston, ME ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 247% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK P14
  • PHOTO Funky Buddha Brewery
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Funky Buddha Brewery (0.1 TCR gap)

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Baxter Brewing Co LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Baxter Brewing Co LLC averages 8.1 TCR (247% of the Beer brewing BLS benchmark).

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

Baxter Brewing Co LLC TCR series: 2020=18.5 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Baxter Brewing Co 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
Baxter Brewing Co LLC (28 employees, TCR 8.1) 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 Baxter Brewing Co LLC
Baxter Brewing Co LLC (28 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Baxter Brewing Co 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
2023 4.4 4.4 1 0 0
2022 4.9 0.0 1 0 0
2021 4.8 0.0 1 0 0
2020 18.5 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · ME · Lewiston

313 Beer brewing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 99 employers in Lewiston, ME · 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 Funky Buddha Brewery 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bale Breaker Brewing Company, LLC 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Honolulu Beerworks 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Utah Brewers Cooperative 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMC - ME - Portland Service Center 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bangor Natural Gas Company 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spang Builders, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chase Excavating Inc 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Mary's Regional Medical Center 1,287 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Maine Medical Center 1,117 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7014 661 FTE
CITY-NEAR 7014 606 FTE
NAT-TCR Cresson Steel Company 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lynn Herbert Sawmills, LLC 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Park Vista - The Legacy 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CHG Building Systems, Inc. 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Filtration : Ottawa 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE CAP Barbell Inc 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE CHNK Burlington Residential Campus 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spiral Brushes, Inc. 28 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.