Beer brewing · Minnesota

Castle Danger Brewery

Two Harbors, MN · ~53 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Castle Danger Brewery runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beer brewing workplace, earning a grade D.

Castle Danger Brewery: 6.5 TCR = 198% of Beer brewing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Castle Danger Brewery safety composite

Castle Danger Brewery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.4

2017→2024

Castle Danger Brewery injury rate improved

Castle Danger Brewery's TCR fell 4.4 from 7.0 in 2017 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.0 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=13.3 · 2023=7.6 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Two Harbors, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 198% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #7/11
  • PHOTO ERIE BREWING - EAST
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ERIE BREWING - EAST (0.0 TCR gap)

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Castle Danger Brewery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Castle Danger Brewery averages 6.5 TCR (198% of the Beer brewing BLS benchmark).

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

Castle Danger Brewery TCR series: 2017=7 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=13.3 · 2023=7.6 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Castle Danger Brewery falls in its industry

313 Beer brewing establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 11 Beer brewing employers in Minnesota.

Castle Danger Brewery (53 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 Castle Danger Brewery
Castle Danger Brewery (53 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Castle Danger Brewery 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 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2023 7.6 0.0 3 0 0
2022 13.3 6.7 6 0 0
2021 7.5 5.0 3 0 0
2020 2.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 5.5 0.0 2 0 0
2018 5.7 2.9 2 0 0
2017 7.0 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · MN · Two Harbors

313 Beer brewing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 28 employers in Two Harbors, MN · 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 ERIE BREWING - EAST 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Victory Brewing Company Downingtown Brewery 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wisconsin Brewing Company 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FedUp Foods 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE North Ottawa 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Perham Breeder Farms 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wastewater Treatment Facility 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maertens- Brenny Construction Company 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake County 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR Louisiana-Pacific Two Harbors 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake View Hospital 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR Two Harbors Machine Shop, Inc. 93 FTE
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #169 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lockridge 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR OBO Italian Table and Bar 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ECNY 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nephi 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakeland Office - #98 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crimson Resource Management 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orrville 53 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.