Distilleries · Kentucky

Heaven Hill-Bernheim Distillery

Louisville, KY · ~60 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heaven Hill-Bernheim Distillery runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Distilleries workplace, earning a grade D.

Heaven Hill-Bernheim Distillery: 5.3 TCR = 159% of Distilleries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heaven Hill-Bernheim Distillery safety composite

Heaven Hill-Bernheim Distillery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Heaven Hill-Bernheim Distillery: 1.6 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2018

Heaven Hill-Bernheim Distillery's TCR rose 7.4 from 1.6 in 2017 to 8.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312140 · Louisville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 159% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #29/35
  • PHOTO Heaven Hill- Bardstown
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heaven Hill- Bardstown (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heaven Hill-Bernheim Distillery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heaven Hill-Bernheim Distillery averages 5.3 TCR (159% of the Distilleries BLS benchmark).

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

Heaven Hill-Bernheim Distillery TCR series: 2017=1.6 · 2018=8.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Heaven Hill-Bernheim Distillery falls in its industry

114 Distilleries establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 35 Distilleries employers in Kentucky.

Heaven Hill-Bernheim Distillery (60 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Heaven Hill-Bernheim Distillery
Heaven Hill-Bernheim Distillery (60 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Heaven Hill-Bernheim Distillery has fewer employees than the Distilleries median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2018 8.9 4.5 6 0 0
2017 1.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312140 · KY · Louisville

114 Distilleries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 1,638 employers in Louisville, KY · 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 Heaven Hill- Bardstown 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Princeton1 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Deep Eddy Distilling Co. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sagamore Whiskey LLC 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Workman Farms INC 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE OFP 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cooper Generating Station 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hopkinsville Electric System 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson County Public Schools 18,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR KYGRA - WORLDPORT 11,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLDPORT (KYGRA) 9,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR KTKY TRUCK 8,757 FTE
NAT-TCR Enduro Industries, LLC, Hannibal Plant 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Premium Concrete 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR John Heinz I.R.M. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kennewick_Yakima 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE CCI- Cumming GA 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Type Culture Collection GMU Campus 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE PD Innovative LLC 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Triangle Services - Lorain County Operating Area 60 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: 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.