Breweries · Texas

Independence Brewing Co.

Austin, TX · ~33 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Independence Brewing Co. runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Breweries workplace, earning a grade A.

Independence Brewing Co.: 1.0 TCR = 32% of Breweries BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Independence Brewing Co. safety composite

Independence Brewing Co. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

Independence Brewing Co. held a steady TCR band

Independence Brewing Co.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.0 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Austin, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 32% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/13
  • PHOTO Wicked Weed Brewing …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wicked Weed Brewing - Clean Production (0.0 TCR gap)

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Independence Brewing Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Independence Brewing Co. averages 1.0 TCR (32% of the Breweries BLS benchmark).

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

Independence Brewing Co. TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Independence Brewing Co. falls in its industry

313 Breweries establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 13 Breweries employers in Texas.

Independence Brewing Co. (33 employees, TCR 1.0) 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 Independence Brewing Co.
Independence Brewing Co. (33 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Independence Brewing Co. has fewer employees than the Breweries 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · TX · Austin

313 Breweries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 1,645 employers in Austin, TX · 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 Wicked Weed Brewing - Clean Production 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Eastciders Commercial Center Drive 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lost Forty Brewing 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anheuser-Busch Jacksonville Brewery 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE SW Seed Company New Deal 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Treesap Farms LLC - Houston 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tejas Feeders LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pilgrims LIVE OPERATIONS 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ensign Services 11,325 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-TX-Austin-Giga Texas 8,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-Loc: CORP LOC - US Austin 6,911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-CORP LOC - USA UNITED STATES - AST 5,272 FTE
NAT-TCR Wartsila North America Inc. - Fort Lauderdale 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Arc NJ LLC 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Trucking 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gehring Construction and Ready Mix Co., Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hatch Stamping Company - Cleveland St 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Freightliner of Winchester 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE East-Central Iowa Rural Electric Cooperative 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cartridge Brewing 33 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.