Beer brewing · Virginia

Devils Backbone Outpost

Lexington, VA · ~54 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Devils Backbone Outpost runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beer brewing workplace, earning a grade D.

Devils Backbone Outpost: 4.3 TCR = 129% of Beer brewing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Devils Backbone Outpost safety composite

Devils Backbone Outpost scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.4

2019→2021

Devils Backbone Outpost injury rate improved

Devils Backbone Outpost's TCR fell 7.4 from 9.2 in 2019 to 1.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=9.2 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Lexington, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 129% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO Port City Brewing Co
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Port City Brewing Co (0.0 TCR gap)

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Devils Backbone Outpost in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Devils Backbone Outpost averages 4.3 TCR (129% of the Beer brewing BLS benchmark).

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

Devils Backbone Outpost TCR series: 2019=9.2 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Devils Backbone Outpost falls in its industry

313 Beer brewing establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 11 Beer brewing employers in Virginia.

Devils Backbone Outpost (54 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 Devils Backbone Outpost
Devils Backbone Outpost (54 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Devils Backbone Outpost 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
2021 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2020 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2019 9.2 2.3 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · VA · Lexington

313 Beer brewing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 28 employers in Lexington, VA · 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 Port City Brewing Co 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AleSmith Brewing Company 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lexington Brewing and Distilling Company 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saint Arnold Brewing Company 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harrisonburg Headquarters 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE George's Virginia Grow Out 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Harrisonburg Public Utilities (Operations) 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlantic Builders Office 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carilion Rockbridge Community Hospital Co. 08 305 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1335 272 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1335 268 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carilion Clinic Stonewall Jackson Co. 08 244 FTE
NAT-TCR North Buffalo Lodging Ventures, LLC 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR AR Metallizing, LTD 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR JFM Logistics, LLC 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Southerland Transport 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Illinis Tool Works 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Division Jasper Complex 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Agilex Fragrances, Somerset 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Missoula Health & Rehab 54 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.