Beer brewing · New Jersey

Cape May Brewing Company

Cape May, NJ · ~74 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cape May Brewing Company runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beer brewing workplace, earning a grade D.

Cape May Brewing Company: 6.3 TCR = 191% of Beer brewing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cape May Brewing Company safety composite

Cape May Brewing Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

Cape May Brewing Company: 3.6 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 13.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.26× in 2023

Cape May Brewing Company's TCR rose 3.1 from 3.6 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 13.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Cape May, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 191% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO The Bruery, LLC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Bruery, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cape May Brewing Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cape May Brewing Company averages 6.3 TCR (191% of the Beer brewing BLS benchmark).

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

Cape May Brewing Company TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=8.4 · 2018=8.7 · 2019=13.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.7 · 2023=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Cape May Brewing Company falls in its industry

313 Beer brewing establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Beer brewing employers in New Jersey.

Cape May Brewing Company (74 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 Cape May Brewing Company
Cape May Brewing Company (74 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Cape May Brewing Company 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
2023 6.7 1.7 3 1 0
2021 2.7 2.7 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 13.9 8.4 5 0 0
2018 8.7 3.5 4 1 0
2017 8.4 8.4 3 0 0
2016 3.6 3.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · NJ · Cape May

313 Beer brewing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 25 employers in Cape May, NJ · 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 The Bruery, LLC 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brewery Ommegang, Ltd. 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Boochery Inc - The Boochery Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ballast Point- Daleville 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE RC Andersen, LLC 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Railroad/Posillico JV LLC 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Journal Square III 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE JJD Electric, LLC 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR COLD SPRING FISH AND SUPPLY CO 248 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pelican Pointe Rehabilitation and Nursing Home 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR La Mer Beachfront Resort 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Victoria Manor 95 FTE
NAT-TCR Ypsilanti MI 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bashas 053 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cornerstone Certified Vineyard 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR General Shale Moncure 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mastria Buick, GMC, Cadillac 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Champion Chrysler 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Waters of Scottsburg 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bashas 161 74 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.