Ale brewing · North Carolina

Mills River

Mills River, NC · ~372 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mills River runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ale brewing workplace, earning a grade C.

Mills River: 3.0 TCR = 92% of Ale brewing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mills River safety composite

Mills River scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

−2.0

2016→2021

Mills River injury rate improved

Mills River's TCR fell 2.0 from 3.0 in 2016 to 1.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.0 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Mills River, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #7/12
  • PHOTO Uinta Brewing Co.
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 62 inj
  • SIZE ~372 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Uinta Brewing Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mills River in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mills River averages 3.0 TCR (92% of the Ale brewing BLS benchmark).

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

Mills River TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=1 · BLS 3.3

Where Mills River falls in its industry

313 Ale brewing establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 12 Ale brewing employers in North Carolina.

Mills River (372 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Mills River
Mills River (372 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Mills River has more employees than the Ale brewing 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
2021 1.0 1.0 3 0 0
2020 3.6 3.2 10 0 0
2019 3.1 2.9 12 0 0
2018 4.8 3.5 16 2 0
2017 2.7 2.1 9 0 0
2016 3.0 3.0 12 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · NC · Mills River

313 Ale brewing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 33 employers in Mills River, NC · 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 Uinta Brewing Co. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Samuel Adams Cincinnati Brewery 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brewery - Clipper City 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zero Gravity Craft Brewery (Bartlett Bay Road) 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE KBI Biopharma - Durham 372 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1097 372 FTE
STATE-SIZE NC_Charlotte_7820 Crescent Executive_TW140102 372 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valdese Weavers (Main) 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR Linamar Light Metals-MR 566 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPM Raflatac Mills River 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPM Raflatac, Inc 259 FTE
CITY-NEAR GF Linamar, LLC 242 FTE
NAT-TCR Pollock, SD 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Collom & Carney Clinic-Main 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Built 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gulfport Care Center 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Redhorse Corporation 372 FTE
NAT-SIZE Agriculture labor 372 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC - Crestline 372 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0025 - Reno Nv Whse 372 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: 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.