312120 Breweries · Illinois

Half Acre Beer Company - Balmoral

Chicago, IL · ~85 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Half Acre Beer Company - Balmoral runs at 265% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical 312120 Breweries workplace, earning a grade F.

Half Acre Beer Company - Balmoral: 8.8 TCR = 265% of 312120 Breweries BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Half Acre Beer Company - Balmoral safety composite

Half Acre Beer Company - Balmoral scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

−5.6

2022→2024

Half Acre Beer Company - Balmoral injury rate improved

Half Acre Beer Company - Balmoral's TCR fell 5.6 from 10.2 in 2022 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 11.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=10.2 · 2023=11.6 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 265% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #11/11
  • PHOTO Windsor Brewing Comp…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Windsor Brewing Company (0.1 TCR gap)

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Half Acre Beer Company - Balmoral in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Half Acre Beer Company - Balmoral averages 8.8 TCR (265% of the 312120 Breweries BLS benchmark).

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

Half Acre Beer Company - Balmoral TCR series: 2022=10.2 · 2023=11.6 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Half Acre Beer Company - Balmoral falls in its industry

313 312120 Breweries establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #11 safest of 11 312120 Breweries employers in Illinois.

Half Acre Beer Company - Balmoral (85 employees, TCR 8.8) 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 Half Acre Beer Company - Balmoral
Half Acre Beer Company - Balmoral (85 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Half Acre Beer Company - Balmoral has more employees than the 312120 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 4.5 3.0 2 1 0
2023 11.6 7.2 6 2 0
2022 10.2 8.9 3 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · IL · Chicago

313 312120 Breweries 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 Windsor Brewing Company 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cervesia Gratis Inc. Lovell Taproom/Brewery 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buchi Brewery 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mass. Bay Brewing Company, Inc. 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Atkinson 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Utica UTI1 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monmouth, IL 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newton Power Station 85 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 Windsor El Camino Care Center 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Txgra - Granbury 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Katherine Healthcare, LLC 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR UFP Magna LLC 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bimeda Le Sueur 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE LindenGrove Communities LLC - Waukesha 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scottco Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alpha Technologies Services LLC 85 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.