Distilleries · New York

Black Button Distilling

Rochester, NY · ~75 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black Button Distilling runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Distilleries workplace, earning a grade B.

Black Button Distilling: 2.2 TCR = 65% of Distilleries BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Button Distilling safety composite

Black Button Distilling scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Black Button Distilling held a steady TCR band

Black Button Distilling's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.0 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312140 · Rochester, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 65% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Smooth Ambler Spirit…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smooth Ambler Spirits Co. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Black Button Distilling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black Button Distilling averages 2.2 TCR (65% of the Distilleries BLS benchmark).

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

Black Button Distilling TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Black Button Distilling falls in its industry

114 Distilleries establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Distilleries employers in New York.

Black Button Distilling (75 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Black Button Distilling
Black Button Distilling (75 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Black Button Distilling has fewer employees than the Distilleries median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 6.5 6.5 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312140 · NY · Rochester

114 Distilleries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 956 employers in Rochester, NY · 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 Smooth Ambler Spirits Co. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR HeritageDistilling Eugene 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR TX Whiskey Ranch 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koloa Rum Company Distillery 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE O&R Blue Hill 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Venia Conctracting LLC 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE 102843 - Rondout West Branch Bypass Water Tunnel 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE McLaughlin Construction Corp. DBA Edbauer Construction 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Division 50 University of Rochester 13,244 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rochester General Hospital 7,833 FTE
CITY-NEAR Division 40 University of Rochester 4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unity Hospital 3,158 FTE
NAT-TCR Contech Hoump 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR IL.BOLIN.4 - Ricoh Americas Holdings, Inc 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Milwaukee Gear 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0275 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Zumbrota Drivetrain 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sinton Dairy Foods Company LLC 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hanks Market, Inc. 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Heritage at Meridian Gardens 75 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. 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.