Breweries · Virginia

Outpost Brewery

Lexington, VA · ~54 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Outpost Brewery runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Breweries workplace, earning a grade D.

Outpost Brewery: 5.5 TCR = 165% of Breweries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Outpost Brewery safety composite

Outpost Brewery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

Outpost Brewery held a steady TCR band

Outpost Brewery's TCR held near 0.2 from 5.3 in 2016 to 5.6 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.3 · 2017=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Lexington, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 165% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #10/11
  • PHOTO Port Brewing LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Port Brewing LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Outpost Brewery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Outpost Brewery averages 5.5 TCR (165% of the Breweries BLS benchmark).

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

Outpost Brewery TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2017=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Outpost Brewery falls in its industry

313 Breweries establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 11 Breweries employers in Virginia.

Outpost Brewery (54 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 Outpost Brewery
Outpost Brewery (54 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Outpost Brewery has fewer employees than the Breweries 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
2017 5.6 3.7 3 0 0
2016 5.3 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · VA · Lexington

313 Breweries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 28 employers in Lexington, VA · 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 Port Brewing LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CBC Latrobe Acqusition, LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indian Peaks Brewing Company dba Left Hand Brewing Company 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Point 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harrisonburg Headquarters 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE George's Virginia Grow Out 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Harrisonburg Public Utilities (Operations) 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlantic Builders Office 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carilion Rockbridge Community Hospital Co. 08 305 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1335 272 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1335 268 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carilion Clinic Stonewall Jackson Co. 08 244 FTE
NAT-TCR McNaughton & Gunn 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Main 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR NAPA S. Milwaukee 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakewood 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Greece Ambulance 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE CORE Construction Services of Illinois, Inc. 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Sweet Springs Inc 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of California West LLC 54 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.