Breweries · Michigan

Founders Brewing Co.

Grand Rapids, MI · ~290 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Founders Brewing Co. runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Breweries workplace, earning a grade A.

Founders Brewing Co.: 1.4 TCR = 44% of Breweries BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Founders Brewing Co. safety composite

Founders Brewing Co. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% 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).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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%).

Founders Brewing Co. held a steady TCR band

Founders Brewing Co.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.0 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Grand Rapids, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 44% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/17
  • PHOTO Anheuser-Busch
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~290 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Anheuser-Busch (0.0 TCR gap)

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Founders Brewing Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Founders Brewing Co. averages 1.4 TCR (44% 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. TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Founders Brewing Co. falls in its industry

313 Breweries establishments

Safer than 89% 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 #2 safest of 17 Breweries employers in Michigan.

Founders Brewing Co. (290 employees, TCR 1.4) 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.
Founders Brewing Co. (290 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Founders Brewing Co. has more 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 4 0 0
2023 4.3 4.3 9 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 2 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Anheuser-Busch 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Williamsburg Brewery 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Millercoors Trenton Brewery 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Molson Coors Beverage Company 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gielow Pickles, Inc 290 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eggs- Lake Odessa MI 290 FTE
STATE-SIZE Herman Miller Midwest Distribution Center 290 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meijer Store 217 290 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 Elkay Plumbing Products Company - Freeport 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TX Houston 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR NA2 Golden Gate Service Center 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR McAlester 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Algood Food Company 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE Staten Island Service Center-Ny78 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dickson Administration 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10615 Queen 290 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.