Beer brewing · Ohio

Great Lakes Brewing Company

Cleveland, OH · ~234 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lakes Brewing Company runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Beer brewing workplace, earning a grade C.

Great Lakes Brewing Company: 2.9 TCR = 87% of Beer brewing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Brewing Company safety composite

Great Lakes Brewing Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Great Lakes Brewing Company: 2.5 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.32× in 2019

Great Lakes Brewing Company's TCR rose 3.2 from 2.5 in 2016 to 5.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Cleveland, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 87% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #14/21
  • PHOTO Southern Tier Brewin…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~234 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southern Tier Brewing Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Brewing Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Lakes Brewing Company averages 2.9 TCR (87% of the Beer brewing BLS benchmark).

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

Great Lakes Brewing Company TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=0.5 · 2019=5.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Great Lakes Brewing Company falls in its industry

313 Beer brewing establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 21 Beer brewing employers in Ohio.

Great Lakes Brewing Company (234 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 Great Lakes Brewing Company
Great Lakes Brewing Company (234 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Great Lakes Brewing Company 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
2019 5.7 3.8 6 0 0
2017 0.5 0.0 0 1 0
2016 2.5 2.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · OH · Cleveland

313 Beer brewing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 922 employers in Cleveland, OH · 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 Southern Tier Brewing Company 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Molson Coors Beverage Company 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Supply Chain : SACB 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buoy 2 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE GEM Industrial Inc. - Cleveland Office 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lordstown Seating Systems 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0506 MANHEIM OHIO 3905 JACKSON PIKE 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2275 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Clinic Main Campus 25,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Cleveland Clinic Foundation 20,763 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cleveland Medical Center 10,377 FTE
CITY-NEAR SILCO FIRE & SECURITY - CLEVELAND 3,641 FTE
NAT-TCR Northern Human Services 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hi-Tech Electric - Mandeville 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Elmira Stamping & Manufacturing Corp. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-Abs 0016 3964 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hilltop Health Services Corporation 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE BemisUS Shirley 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE SmartWatt Energy, Inc. 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ardagh Metal Beverage-Winston-Salem 234 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: 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.