Beer brewing · California

Lost Coast Brewery

Eureka, CA · ~37 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lost Coast Brewery runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beer brewing workplace, earning a grade D.

Lost Coast Brewery: 6.0 TCR = 181% of Beer brewing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lost Coast Brewery safety composite

Lost Coast Brewery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

−0.5

2017→2019

Lost Coast Brewery injury rate improved

Lost Coast Brewery's TCR fell 0.5 from 6.2 in 2017 to 5.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.2 · 2018=6.1 · 2019=5.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Eureka, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 181% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #32/46
  • PHOTO Straub Brewery, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Straub Brewery, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Lost Coast Brewery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lost Coast Brewery averages 6.0 TCR (181% of the Beer brewing BLS benchmark).

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

Lost Coast Brewery TCR series: 2017=6.2 · 2018=6.1 · 2019=5.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Lost Coast Brewery falls in its industry

313 Beer brewing establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 46 Beer brewing employers in California.

Lost Coast Brewery (37 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 Lost Coast Brewery
Lost Coast Brewery (37 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Lost Coast Brewery has fewer 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 5.7 1.9 2 1 0
2018 6.1 6.1 3 0 0
2017 6.2 5.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · CA · Eureka

313 Beer brewing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 96 employers in Eureka, 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 Straub Brewery, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brewery 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Portland Brewing 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shawmut 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE BULLSEYE FARMS LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE KP Spraying LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE KAN - 01 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kimberlina Shop 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 65 1,751 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA814 ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL EUREKA HR 1,210 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2004-00001430 1,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 407 701 FTE
NAT-TCR Lost Pines (HR) 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Tri-State iron & Metal Co. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pyramid Paving and Contracting Co. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Compassionate Care Hospice of Camp Hill 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wright Brothers Paper Box Company, Inc 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE LRCP/Mambo, LLC 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE CI - El Paso TX 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale La Crosse 37 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. 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.