Beer brewing · Illinois

Goose Island Beer Co.

Chicago, IL · ~124 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Goose Island Beer Co. runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Beer brewing workplace, earning a grade B.

Goose Island Beer Co.: 2.5 TCR = 75% of Beer brewing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Goose Island Beer Co. safety composite

Goose Island Beer Co. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

Goose Island Beer Co.: 0.0 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.42× in 2022

Goose Island Beer Co.'s TCR rose 2.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 75% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #5/11
  • PHOTO MillerCoors Irwindal…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~124 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MillerCoors Irwindale Brewery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Goose Island Beer Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Goose Island Beer Co. averages 2.5 TCR (75% of the Beer brewing BLS benchmark).

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

Goose Island Beer Co. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=6.5 · 2022=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Goose Island Beer Co. falls in its industry

313 Beer brewing establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 11 Beer brewing employers in Illinois.

Goose Island Beer Co. (124 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 Goose Island Beer Co.
Goose Island Beer Co. (124 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Goose Island Beer Co. has more employees than the Beer brewing 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
2022 2.1 1.0 1 1 0
2020 6.5 5.2 5 0 0
2019 5.3 1.3 1 3 0
2018 0.9 0.4 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · IL · Chicago

313 Beer brewing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 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 MillerCoors Irwindale Brewery 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blue Point Brewing Company 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monday Night Brewing 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Founders Brewing - 235 Grandville 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2504-Illiopolis, IL 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Maryville 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE 121 - Walsh/Toebe Joint Venture 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE CBI Services, LLC 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR HG563 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Y Foods, Inc. Holden 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Casella recycling resourses 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR E.J. Carrier Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 9123-Buf-Primeflight Aviation Services, Inc. 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-PD-SDF-LOUISVILLE-SDF-PDMT 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-ABS-0017-0016-00212 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-ABS-0027-0026-00458 124 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 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.