Beer brewing · California

Dust Bowl Brewing Co., Brewery

Turlock, CA · ~13 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

Dust Bowl Brewing Co., Brewery runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beer brewing workplace, earning a grade D.

Dust Bowl Brewing Co., Brewery: 4.3 TCR = 132% of Beer brewing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dust Bowl Brewing Co., Brewery safety composite

Dust Bowl Brewing Co., Brewery scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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 4.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Dust Bowl Brewing Co., Brewery: 0.0 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Dust Bowl Brewing Co., Brewery's TCR rose 4.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Turlock, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 132% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #20/46
  • PHOTO Crooked Stave LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~13 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Crooked Stave LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dust Bowl Brewing Co., Brewery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dust Bowl Brewing Co., Brewery averages 4.3 TCR (132% of the Beer brewing BLS benchmark).

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

Dust Bowl Brewing Co., Brewery TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=8.3 · 2018=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Dust Bowl Brewing Co., Brewery falls in its industry

313 Beer brewing establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 46 Beer brewing employers in California.

Dust Bowl Brewing Co., Brewery (13 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 Dust Bowl Brewing Co., Brewery
Dust Bowl Brewing Co., Brewery (13 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Dust Bowl Brewing Co., 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
2018 4.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 8.3 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · CA · Turlock

313 Beer brewing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 171 employers in Turlock, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Crooked Stave LLC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bell's Brewery 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lagunitas Brewing Company Chicago 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brewery Vivant 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE J & G Contract Labor, Inc 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medeiros Farms Inc 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concepcion Ramirez Farms 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE David E. Carlucci Diversified Farming 13 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-027 1,079 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-209 911 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MCE1 897 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 349 779 FTE
NAT-TCR The Fresh Market 060 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Graphic Controls 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Morrisville RAL 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Anne Center 4.3 TCR

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: 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.