Breweries · Texas

Karbach Brewing Company

Houston, TX · ~96 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Karbach Brewing Company runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Breweries workplace, earning a grade B.

Karbach Brewing Company: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Breweries BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Karbach Brewing Company safety composite

Karbach Brewing Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% 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).

C

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.1

2016→2024

Karbach Brewing Company injury rate improved

Karbach Brewing Company's TCR fell 2.1 from 3.0 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.0 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=4.7 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/13
  • PHOTO Molson Coors
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Molson Coors (0.0 TCR gap)

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Karbach Brewing Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Karbach Brewing Company averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Breweries BLS benchmark).

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

Karbach Brewing Company TCR series: 2016=3 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=0 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=4.7 · 2022=0 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Karbach Brewing Company falls in its industry

313 Breweries establishments

Safer than 80% 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 #8 safest of 13 Breweries employers in Texas.

Karbach Brewing Company (96 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 Karbach Brewing Company
Karbach Brewing Company (96 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Karbach Brewing Company has more 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 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.7 1.6 3 0 0
2020 4.1 0.0 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2016 3.0 3.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · TX · Houston

313 Breweries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, 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 Molson Coors 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jackie O's Brewery - 1 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wicked Weed Brewing - Funk House 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Land-Grant Brewing Company, LLC 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 3110 N I35 ROUND ROCK TX 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE TECO Central Plant 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oates Industries, Inc. 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Layne Christensen - 1800 Hughes Landing Blvd 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Roto-Rooter Plumbers 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Madison 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Office of Executive Management 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC Romeoville 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Drake Precision Dental Laboratory Inc. 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Troymill Wood Products 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waterloo Service Center 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plymouth Meeting 96 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.