Breweries · Michigan

Founders Brewing Co. - Barrel House

Grand Rapids, MI · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Founders Brewing Co. - Barrel House runs at 275% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Breweries workplace, earning a grade F.

Founders Brewing Co. - Barrel House: 9.1 TCR = 275% of Breweries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Founders Brewing Co. - Barrel House safety composite

Founders Brewing Co. - Barrel House scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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

−17.9

2023→2024

Founders Brewing Co. - Barrel House injury rate improved

Founders Brewing Co. - Barrel House's TCR fell 17.9 from 18.0 in 2023 to 0.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 18.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=18.0 · 2024=0.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Grand Rapids, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 275% of ind

  • DART 0.1 DART
  • RANK #16/17
  • PHOTO Big Top
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Top (0.1 TCR gap)

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Founders Brewing Co. - Barrel House in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Founders Brewing Co. - Barrel House averages 9.1 TCR (275% of the Breweries BLS benchmark).

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

Founders Brewing Co. - Barrel House TCR series: 2023=18 · 2024=0.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Founders Brewing Co. - Barrel House falls in its industry

313 Breweries establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 17 Breweries employers in Michigan.

Founders Brewing Co. - Barrel House (19 employees, TCR 9.1) 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 Founders Brewing Co. - Barrel House
Founders Brewing Co. - Barrel House (19 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Founders Brewing Co. - Barrel House 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 0.1 0.1 2 0 0
2023 18.0 18.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · MI · Grand Rapids

313 Breweries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 1,006 employers in Grand Rapids, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Big Top 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Magic Hat Brewing Co. 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fremont Brewing 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buchi Brewery 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Everbest 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE C3 Industries, Inc - Webberville (Greenhouse) 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rieth-Riley - Houghton Lake 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arenac County Road Commission 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHHG-GR BUTTERWORTH CA 9,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Butterworth Hospital 7,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Saint Mary's Hospital-MH-MI 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steelcase - Grand Rapids / Kentwood 2,817 FTE
NAT-TCR The Stratford 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Commute Is Great Logistics LLC 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Morris Il - 3215 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 65X8 - EAN Holdings, LLC South Texas Division 9.1 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: 2024, 2023. 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.