Breweries · Wisconsin

Central Waters Brewing Company

Amherst, WI · ~33 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Waters Brewing Company runs at 20% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Breweries workplace, earning a grade A.

Central Waters Brewing Company: 0.7 TCR = 20% of Breweries BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Waters Brewing Company safety composite

Central Waters Brewing Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

Central Waters Brewing Company held a steady TCR band

Central Waters Brewing Company's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Amherst, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 20% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/14
  • PHOTO Artisanal Brewing Ve…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Artisanal Brewing Ventures - Brewery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Waters Brewing Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Waters Brewing Company averages 0.7 TCR (20% of the Breweries BLS benchmark).

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

Central Waters Brewing Company TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Central Waters Brewing Company falls in its industry

313 Breweries establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 14 Breweries employers in Wisconsin.

Central Waters Brewing Company (33 employees, TCR 0.7) 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 Central Waters Brewing Company
Central Waters Brewing Company (33 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Central Waters Brewing Company has fewer employees than the Breweries median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.6 4.6 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · WI · Amherst

313 Breweries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 5 employers in Amherst, WI · 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 Artisanal Brewing Ventures - Brewery 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Three Barrel Brewing Co.,LLC 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anheuser-Busch Fairfield Brewery 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR FLORIDA AVENUE BREWING CO. 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE HM Clause - Sun Prairie 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Atkinson 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gorman General Contractors 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE J&J Contractors I LLC 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR H. O. Wolding, Inc. 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bison Transport USA - Amherst 326 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blenker Companies, Inc 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amherst 80 FTE
NAT-TCR Tyler, TX - 13786 Harvey Road 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Amherst ICS 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR MD25 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Center Line PDC 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Creative Outdoor Advertising 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sevelen, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE BD Facility 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE BNACS - Hilton Garden Inn - Cool Springs 33 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. 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.