Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing · Georgia

Polar Southern Bottling

Fitzgerald, GA · ~225 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Polar Southern Bottling runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Polar Southern Bottling: 2.9 TCR = 89% of Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Polar Southern Bottling safety composite

Polar Southern Bottling scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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

2020→2024

Polar Southern Bottling injury rate improved

Polar Southern Bottling's TCR fell 0.5 from 3.2 in 2020 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.2 · 2021=3.0 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312111 · Fitzgerald, GA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 89% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #12/16
  • PHOTO Cold Spring Brewing …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~225 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cold Spring Brewing Company Suite F (0.0 TCR gap)

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Polar Southern Bottling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Polar Southern Bottling averages 2.9 TCR (89% of the Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Polar Southern Bottling TCR series: 2020=3.2 · 2021=3 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Polar Southern Bottling falls in its industry

516 Beverages, soft drink (includi establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 16 Beverages, soft drink (includi employers in Georgia.

Polar Southern Bottling (225 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Polar Southern Bottling
Polar Southern Bottling (225 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Polar Southern Bottling has more employees than the Beverages, soft drink (including artific median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 2.7 1.7 8 0 0
2023 3.5 3.1 10 0 0
2022 2.3 1.5 6 0 0
2021 3.0 2.5 6 0 0
2020 3.2 2.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312111 · GA · Fitzgerald

516 Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 29 employers in Fitzgerald, GA · 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 Cold Spring Brewing Company Suite F 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CCNA L.V. Syrup Plant 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Polar Southbridge St 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carolina Beverage Group Fort Worth Location 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corporate Jackson EMC 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brooks-Berry-Haynie & Associates 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE ELITE FLOORING AND DESIGN INC 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chatsworth Samples 225 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Blanching Co 324 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 686 274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dorminy Medical Center 271 FTE
CITY-NEAR 686 265 FTE
NAT-TCR Amy's Kitchen, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Arsenal Scaffold Inc 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR St Paul Hampton Inn & Suites 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Stockton 244 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Newark Liberty Internal Airport Marriott 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10321 McEwen 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10180 Kentlands 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE NHC Place at The Trace 225 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.