Beer brewing · Wisconsin

Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company

Chippewa Falls, WI · ~146 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beer brewing workplace, earning a grade D.

Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company: 4.0 TCR = 120% of Beer brewing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company safety composite

Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company: 3.0 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company's TCR rose 2.1 from 3.0 in 2016 to 5.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Chippewa Falls, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 120% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/14
  • PHOTO 1776 Brewing Company…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~146 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1776 Brewing Company, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company averages 4.0 TCR (120% of the Beer brewing BLS benchmark).

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

Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=3.8 · 2018=4 · 2019=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company falls in its industry

313 Beer brewing establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 14 Beer brewing employers in Wisconsin.

Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company (146 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company
Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company (146 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing 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
2019 5.1 0.0 5 0 0
2018 4.0 2.0 4 0 0
2017 3.8 2.9 3 1 0
2016 3.0 2.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · WI · Chippewa Falls

313 Beer brewing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 112 employers in Chippewa Falls, WI · 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 1776 Brewing Company, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Revolution Brewing 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ska Brewing Co. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Royall 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crush City Construction 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lakefront Brewery 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Menominee Tribal Enterprise Sawmill 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant 334 Prairie du Chien WI 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR TTM Technologies Chippewa Falls 649 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5373 528 FTE
CITY-NEAR River Country Co-op 499 FTE
CITY-NEAR TTM Technologies 457 FTE
NAT-TCR The Medical Center at Bowling Green Emergency Medical Services 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ingham's Regrooving Service 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sekisui Voltek, LLC, Lawrence 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 9 Forbes Rd Ste 9B 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Gardners 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE AH Avera Central Office 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Feld Entertainment - D20 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE UniSource Energy Services (Electric) 146 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.