Wineries · California

Kosta Browne Winery

Sebastopol, CA · ~27 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kosta Browne Winery runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Wineries workplace, earning a grade D.

Kosta Browne Winery: 4.5 TCR = 137% of Wineries BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kosta Browne Winery safety composite

Kosta Browne Winery scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−8.4

2021→2024

Kosta Browne Winery injury rate improved

Kosta Browne Winery's TCR fell 8.4 from 8.4 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=8.4 · 2022=9.7 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312130 · Sebastopol, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 137% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #101/224
  • PHOTO O'Neill Vintners and…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: O'Neill Vintners and Distillers (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kosta Browne Winery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kosta Browne Winery averages 4.5 TCR (137% of the Wineries BLS benchmark).

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

Kosta Browne Winery TCR series: 2021=8.4 · 2022=9.7 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Kosta Browne Winery falls in its industry

309 Wineries establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #101 safest of 224 Wineries employers in California.

Kosta Browne Winery (27 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kosta Browne Winery
Kosta Browne Winery (27 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Kosta Browne Winery has fewer employees than the Wineries median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 9.7 9.7 2 1 0
2021 8.4 4.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312130 · CA · Sebastopol

309 Wineries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 25 employers in Sebastopol, CA · 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 O'Neill Vintners and Distillers 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR JFW Skylane 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Citizen Cider 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rutherford wine company 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE HQ 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medeiros Farms Vineyards 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE SAND RANCH 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Bernabe Vineyards 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-Solmetric 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 566 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dutton Ranch Corp 134 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-00933 111 FTE
NAT-TCR JVI Group Inc 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Perry Project 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PGS Nordic 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mesa Rim Reno 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Moraine 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE JT Precision, Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jones Sweeting Automotive, LLC 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE CCFC Road Department 27 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. 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.