Distilleries · Kentucky

Buffalo Trace Distillery

Frankfort, KY · ~640 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buffalo Trace Distillery runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Distilleries workplace, earning a grade A.

Buffalo Trace Distillery: 1.1 TCR = 35% of Distilleries BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo Trace Distillery safety composite

Buffalo Trace Distillery scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

Buffalo Trace Distillery: 0.5 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.11× in 2024

Buffalo Trace Distillery's TCR rose 1.1 from 0.5 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312140 · Frankfort, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 35% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #5/35
  • PHOTO Maker's Mark Distill…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~640 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Maker's Mark Distillery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buffalo Trace Distillery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buffalo Trace Distillery averages 1.1 TCR (35% of the Distilleries BLS benchmark).

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

Buffalo Trace Distillery TCR series: 2016=0.5 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=1 · 2023=1 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Buffalo Trace Distillery falls in its industry

114 Distilleries establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 35 Distilleries employers in Kentucky.

Buffalo Trace Distillery (640 employees, TCR 1.1) 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 Buffalo Trace Distillery
Buffalo Trace Distillery (640 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Buffalo Trace Distillery has more 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
2024 1.6 1.3 13 0 0
2023 1.0 0.6 7 0 0
2021 1.0 0.3 6 0 0
2020 1.5 0.4 8 0 0
2016 0.5 0.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312140 · KY · Frankfort

114 Distilleries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 104 employers in Frankfort, KY · 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 Maker's Mark Distillery 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sazerac Distillers, LLC d.b.a. The Glenmore Distillery 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Riff Distilling - West Campus 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bottlers Company International 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Specialty Foods Group, LLC 639 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baptist Health Richmond 641 FTE
STATE-SIZE Erlanger Wild Flavors 643 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mazak Corporation Florence Kentucky 637 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYTC Central Office 945 FTE
CITY-NEAR Human Resource Bldg 892 FTE
CITY-NEAR Montaplast of North America Inc 784 FTE
CITY-NEAR EECSOWER 754 FTE
NAT-TCR U S Glass Inc 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kurz Transfer Products, L.P. Huntersville, NC 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc - Reinbeck SPSC 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR E. Liverpool- Liquids Transport 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE TotalEnergies Petrochemicals & Refining USA, Inc., Port Arthur Refinery 640 FTE
NAT-SIZE MSG Networks 640 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1043 - Eagan 640 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8027688 Callaway Golf 640 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, 2021, 2020, 2016. 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.