Beer brewing · Illinois

Half Acre Beer Company

Chicago, IL · ~94 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Half Acre Beer Company runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beer brewing workplace, earning a grade D.

Half Acre Beer Company: 4.4 TCR = 135% of Beer brewing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Half Acre Beer Company safety composite

Half Acre Beer Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Half Acre Beer Company: 0.0 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 15.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2020

Half Acre Beer Company's TCR rose 2.7 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 15.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 135% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #9/11
  • PHOTO Bell's Brewery
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bell's Brewery (0.1 TCR gap)

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Half Acre Beer Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Half Acre Beer Company averages 4.4 TCR (135% of the Beer brewing BLS benchmark).

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

Half Acre Beer Company TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=15 · 2020=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Half Acre Beer Company falls in its industry

313 Beer brewing establishments

Safer than 39% 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 #9 safest of 11 Beer brewing employers in Illinois.

Half Acre Beer Company (94 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 Half Acre Beer Company
Half Acre Beer Company (94 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Half Acre Beer Company has more employees than the Beer brewing 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
2020 2.7 2.7 2 0 0
2019 15.0 11.3 10 2 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 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 Bell's Brewery 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lagunitas Brewing Company Chicago 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brewery Vivant 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crooked Stave LLC 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Assembly 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE ABC Humane Wildlife Control & Prevention Inc., DBA Landmark PEst Management 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Geneseo 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.A. Cullinan 94 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 LAX 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Jacksonville Can Plant 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Continental Structural Plastics, Newton 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Completion 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Barclay Brand Ferdon 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE UVA Medical Center - Home Health Continuum 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Association Child Care 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE TI Automotive - New Haven 94 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.