Coffee roasting · New York

Blue Bottle Coffee Bushwick

Brooklyn, NY · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.5
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blue Bottle Coffee Bushwick runs at 231% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Coffee roasting workplace, earning a grade F.

Blue Bottle Coffee Bushwick: 9.5 TCR = 231% of Coffee roasting BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Bottle Coffee Bushwick safety composite

Blue Bottle Coffee Bushwick scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Blue Bottle Coffee Bushwick: 0.0 → 19.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 19.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2023

Blue Bottle Coffee Bushwick's TCR rose 19.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 19.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311920 · Brooklyn, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.5 · 231% of ind

  • DART 19.0 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Cadillac Coffee Co. …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cadillac Coffee Co. - Troy (0.1 TCR gap)

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Blue Bottle Coffee Bushwick in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blue Bottle Coffee Bushwick averages 9.5 TCR (231% of the Coffee roasting BLS benchmark).

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

Blue Bottle Coffee Bushwick TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=19 · BLS 4.1

Where Blue Bottle Coffee Bushwick falls in its industry

169 Coffee roasting establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #6 safest of 6 Coffee roasting employers in New York.

Blue Bottle Coffee Bushwick (27 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Blue Bottle Coffee Bushwick
Blue Bottle Coffee Bushwick (27 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Blue Bottle Coffee Bushwick has fewer employees than the Coffee roasting median and a higher 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 19.0 19.0 4 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311920 · NY · Brooklyn

169 Coffee roasting employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 941 employers in Brooklyn, 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 Cadillac Coffee Co. - Troy 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paramount Coffee Company 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Luna Gourmet Coffee and Tea Co 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Diamond, Inc. - Corporate Headquarters (Moody) 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rick Minkus Farms 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Highbanks Dairy 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Van Slyke's Dairy Farm LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Synergy LLC 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR EDI - Brooklyn 946 9,270 FTE
CITY-NEAR S & A Unified Home Care, Inc. 7,782 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maimonides Medical Center 6,641 FTE
CITY-NEAR NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn 5,690 FTE
NAT-TCR 4418/3639 - Shell Rock Crossdocks 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Town of Stowe 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DoubleTree by Hilton South Bend 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR RK-034-West Evansville ( RK-034 ) 9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hotel Becket 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kerry/Fleischmann's Vinegar 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waldo- 125 Northport 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Work Center 27 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.