Spirits, distilled (except brandy), manufacturing · Kentucky

Maker's Mark Distillery

Loretto, KY · ~240 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Maker's Mark Distillery runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Spirits, distilled (except brandy), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Maker's Mark Distillery: 1.1 TCR = 35% of Spirits, distilled (except brandy), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Maker's Mark Distillery safety composite

Maker's Mark Distillery scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Maker's Mark Distillery: 0.0 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.25× in 2024

Maker's Mark Distillery's TCR rose 1.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312140 · Loretto, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 35% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #6/35
  • PHOTO Buffalo Trace Distil…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~240 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Buffalo Trace Distillery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Maker's Mark Distillery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Maker's Mark Distillery averages 1.1 TCR (35% of the Spirits, distilled (except brandy), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Maker's Mark Distillery TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=0.4 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Maker's Mark Distillery falls in its industry

114 Spirits, distilled (except bra establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 35 Spirits, distilled (except bra employers in Kentucky.

Maker's Mark Distillery (240 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Maker's Mark Distillery
Maker's Mark Distillery (240 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Maker's Mark Distillery has more employees than the Spirits, distilled (except brandy), manu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 1.7 0.3 6 0 0
2022 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2021 0.8 0.0 2 0 0
2020 1.3 0.4 3 0 0
2019 0.8 0.0 2 0 0
2018 2.1 0.0 5 0 0
2017 2.0 1.5 4 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312140 · KY · Loretto

114 Spirits, distilled (except brandy), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 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 Buffalo Trace Distillery 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sazerac Distillers, LLC d.b.a. The Glenmore Distillery 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Riff Distilling - West Campus 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bottlers Company International 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE White Castle Distributing LLC Louisville 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE Louisville KY 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meijer Store 166 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE Givaudan Flavors Corporation 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Peterson Farms 48 FTE
NAT-TCR Gould Construction, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Capital Hotel 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Crystal Group Inc 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Visit Orlando 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Palazzo 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Action South Central Michigan 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE Iowa Fertilizer Company 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pirelli Tire LLC 240 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.