Breweries · California

Firestone Walker Inc. -- Buellton CA

Buellton, CA · ~49 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Firestone Walker Inc. -- Buellton CA runs at 259% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Breweries workplace, earning a grade F.

Firestone Walker Inc. -- Buellton CA: 8.6 TCR = 259% of Breweries BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Firestone Walker Inc. -- Buellton CA safety composite

Firestone Walker Inc. -- Buellton CA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

−0.6

2022→2024

Firestone Walker Inc. -- Buellton CA injury rate improved

Firestone Walker Inc. -- Buellton CA's TCR fell 0.6 from 7.8 in 2022 to 7.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=7.8 · 2023=10.6 · 2024=7.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 259% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #42/46
  • PHOTO Great Lakes Brewing …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Great Lakes Brewing Co. - SVILLE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Firestone Walker Inc. -- Buellton CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Firestone Walker Inc. -- Buellton CA averages 8.6 TCR (259% of the Breweries BLS benchmark).

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

Firestone Walker Inc. -- Buellton CA TCR series: 2022=7.8 · 2023=10.6 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Firestone Walker Inc. -- Buellton CA falls in its industry

313 Breweries establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #42 safest of 46 Breweries employers in California.

Firestone Walker Inc. -- Buellton CA (49 employees, TCR 8.6) 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 Firestone Walker Inc. -- Buellton CA
Firestone Walker Inc. -- Buellton CA (49 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Firestone Walker Inc. -- Buellton CA has fewer employees than the Breweries 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 7.2 7.2 2 0 0
2023 10.6 7.1 3 0 0
2022 7.8 7.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · CA · Buellton

313 Breweries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 15 employers in Buellton, CA · 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 Great Lakes Brewing Co. - SVILLE 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elk Grove Old Town Tap House 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5011_11572 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ballast Point - Miramar 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE LAJES FARMS INC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunview Shandon 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rawah-Napa County 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Farms 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 153 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coastal Vineyard Care Associates 647 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Barbara Operations 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-03324 102 FTE
NAT-TCR CSL Summit Place LLC 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR JRC Virginia 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Merlo Operations- Operators 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Denver Center for the Performing Arts 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dacon Industries Co 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hammond Lumber Company - Rochester 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hawaiian Host LLC 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village of Lake Bluff- Fire 49 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. 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.