Breweries · Michigan

Bell's Brewery

Galesburg, MI · ~373 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bell's Brewery runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Breweries workplace, earning a grade D.

Bell's Brewery: 4.4 TCR = 133% of Breweries BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bell's Brewery safety composite

Bell's Brewery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Bell's Brewery: 4.5 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.11× in 2024

Bell's Brewery's TCR rose 0.4 from 4.5 in 2018 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Galesburg, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 133% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #9/17
  • PHOTO Lagunitas Brewing Co…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 104 inj
  • SIZE ~373 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lagunitas Brewing Company Chicago (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bell's Brewery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bell's Brewery averages 4.4 TCR (133% of the Breweries BLS benchmark).

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

Bell's Brewery TCR series: 2018=4.5 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=3.7 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Bell's Brewery falls in its industry

313 Breweries establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 17 Breweries employers in Michigan.

Bell's Brewery (373 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 Bell's Brewery
Bell's Brewery (373 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Bell's Brewery has more employees than the Breweries 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 4.8 4.8 11 0 0
2023 5.2 4.4 13 0 0
2022 3.6 3.1 13 0 0
2021 3.7 2.7 14 1 0
2020 5.4 4.6 21 1 0
2019 3.4 3.2 14 0 0
2018 4.5 3.7 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · MI · Galesburg

313 Breweries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 25 employers in Galesburg, 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 Lagunitas Brewing Company Chicago 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brewery Vivant 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crooked Stave LLC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dust Bowl Brewing Co., Brewery 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Litehouse Inc. - Lowell 373 FTE
STATE-SIZE GHSP - Grand Haven 373 FTE
STATE-SIZE DTW - Airport United Airlines Offices 373 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alpine Power Systems 372 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0587 - Kalamazoo MI DC 1,230 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0587 - Kalamazoo DC 1,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR GALESBURG MI 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shiloh Industries - Galesburg 306 FTE
NAT-TCR 17 - Watsontown 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Phoenix Custom Formulations, LLC 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Legend of Mansfield 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tri County Metals - Plant 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mueller Water Products 373 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anaheim Hauling - Republic Services 373 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ardmore Bldg A 373 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Orange County Convention Center 373 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, 2018. 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.