Beverages, beer, ale, and malt liquors, manufacturing · Illinois

Lagunitas Brewing Company Chicago

Chicago, IL · ~104 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lagunitas Brewing Company Chicago runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beverages, beer, ale, and malt liquors, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Lagunitas Brewing Company Chicago: 4.4 TCR = 133% of Beverages, beer, ale, and malt liquors, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lagunitas Brewing Company Chicago safety composite

Lagunitas Brewing Company Chicago scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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).

D

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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%).

Lagunitas Brewing Company Chicago held a steady TCR band

Lagunitas Brewing Company Chicago's TCR held near 0.3 from 4.5 in 2022 to 4.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.5 · 2023=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 133% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO Bell's Brewery
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bell's Brewery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lagunitas Brewing Company Chicago in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lagunitas Brewing Company Chicago averages 4.4 TCR (133% of the Beverages, beer, ale, and malt liquors, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lagunitas Brewing Company Chicago TCR series: 2022=4.5 · 2023=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Lagunitas Brewing Company Chicago falls in its industry

313 Beverages, beer, ale, and malt establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 11 Beverages, beer, ale, and malt employers in Illinois.

Lagunitas Brewing Company Chicago (104 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 Lagunitas Brewing Company Chicago
Lagunitas Brewing Company Chicago (104 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Lagunitas Brewing Company Chicago has more employees than the Beverages, beer, ale, and malt liquors, 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
2023 4.2 2.1 4 0 0
2022 4.5 3.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · IL · Chicago

313 Beverages, beer, ale, and malt liquors, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 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 Bell's Brewery 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brewery Vivant 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crooked Stave LLC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dust Bowl Brewing Co., Brewery 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 76G - Southern - IL Gas Ops 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Madison Construction 2016 OSHA 300 & 300A 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE C & L Maintenance inc. 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elliot Construction Corporation 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR Metzler Forest Products LLC 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR New Perspective - Roseville 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Brewery Vivant 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Technical Chemical Company 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Veg-Land, Inc. 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valassis, Inc. 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newaygo Medical Care Facility 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keystone Nursing Care Center Inc 104 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.