Beer brewing · Virginia

Port City Brewing Co

Alexandria, VA · ~39 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Port City Brewing Co runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beer brewing workplace, earning a grade D.

Port City Brewing Co: 4.3 TCR = 129% of Beer brewing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Port City Brewing Co safety composite

Port City Brewing Co scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Port City Brewing Co: 0.0 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.99× in 2020

Port City Brewing Co's TCR rose 8.5 from 0.0 in 2018 to 8.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 129% of ind

  • DART 8.5 DART
  • RANK #9/11
  • PHOTO Devils Backbone Outp…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Devils Backbone Outpost (0.0 TCR gap)

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Port City Brewing Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Port City Brewing Co averages 4.3 TCR (129% of the Beer brewing BLS benchmark).

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

Port City Brewing Co TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=8.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Port City Brewing Co falls in its industry

313 Beer brewing establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #9 safest of 11 Beer brewing employers in Virginia.

Port City Brewing Co (39 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 Port City Brewing Co
Port City Brewing Co (39 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Port City Brewing Co 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
2020 8.5 8.5 2 0 0
2019 4.3 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · VA · Alexandria

313 Beer brewing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 335 employers in Alexandria, 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 Devils Backbone Outpost 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AleSmith Brewing Company 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lexington Brewing and Distilling Company 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saint Arnold Brewing Company 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics VA Hatch 60 61 62 64 65 66, 950-VA 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utilities - Sewerage Systems 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.D. Kerns Construction Company, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE DWATTS Construction LLC 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alexandria Rail Facility/Telegraph Road 1,964 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inova Alexandria Hospital 1,512 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alexandria Rail Yard 996 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inova Mount Vernon Hospital 950 FTE
NAT-TCR Syracuse Store - 01 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Food Source 702-Sacramento 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Meijer Store 250 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Chrestomathy Center 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Morningside of Cleveland 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carolina Paper Tubes 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clover Hill Senior Living 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bellasera Resort 39 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.