Beer brewing · North Carolina

Big Top

Asheville, NC · ~33 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Big Top runs at 272% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beer brewing workplace, earning a grade F.

Big Top: 9.0 TCR = 272% of Beer brewing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Top safety composite

Big Top scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Big Top: 0.0 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 16.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2024

Big Top's TCR rose 5.5 from 0.0 in 2020 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 16.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Asheville, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 272% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #12/12
  • PHOTO Fremont Brewing
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fremont Brewing (0.1 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · North Carolina employers → · Look up another →

Big Top in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Top averages 9.0 TCR (272% of the Beer brewing BLS benchmark).

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

Big Top TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=7 · 2022=16.1 · 2023=16.1 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Big Top falls in its industry

313 Beer brewing establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 12 Beer brewing employers in North Carolina.

Big Top (33 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 Big Top
Big Top (33 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Big Top 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 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2023 16.1 8.1 4 0 0
2022 16.1 8.1 4 0 0
2021 7.0 4.7 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · NC · Asheville

313 Beer brewing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 290 employers in Asheville, NC · 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 Fremont Brewing 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buchi Brewery 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Founders Brewing Co. - Barrel House 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cervesia Gratis Inc. Lovell Taproom/Brewery 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Scott Brothers Inc 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Strickland Farms Payroll 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE James B. Morris Farms, Inc, 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE LTL, LLC 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mission Hospital; MH Hospital Manager, LLC 8,097 FTE
CITY-NEAR Biltmore Workforce Management 1,894 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mission Medical Associates 1,336 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Care Partners 1,018 FTE
NAT-TCR Avports 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sioux City - Corporate Office - SC 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Point Pleasant Retirement Community 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ottawa County - Parks Operation Center 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bets Choice Roofing East LLC 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Abrasive Form 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Superior Beer 33 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. 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.