Breweries · Michigan

Saugatuck Brewing Company

Douglas, MI · ~91 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Saugatuck Brewing Company runs at 252% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Breweries workplace, earning a grade F.

Saugatuck Brewing Company: 8.3 TCR = 252% of Breweries BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saugatuck Brewing Company safety composite

Saugatuck Brewing Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Saugatuck Brewing Company: 5.9 → 15.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 15.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.11× in 2023

Saugatuck Brewing Company's TCR rose 9.5 from 5.9 in 2017 to 15.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Douglas, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 252% of ind

  • DART 9.2 DART
  • RANK #15/17
  • PHOTO Tree House Brewing, …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tree House Brewing, Sandwich (0.0 TCR gap)

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Saugatuck Brewing Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Saugatuck Brewing Company averages 8.3 TCR (252% of the Breweries BLS benchmark).

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

Saugatuck Brewing Company TCR series: 2017=5.9 · 2018=9.5 · 2019=8 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=15.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Saugatuck Brewing Company falls in its industry

313 Breweries establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 17 Breweries employers in Michigan.

Saugatuck Brewing Company (91 employees, TCR 8.3) 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 Saugatuck Brewing Company
Saugatuck Brewing Company (91 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Saugatuck Brewing Company has more 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
2023 15.4 9.2 5 0 0
2022 2.8 0.0 2 0 0
2019 8.0 0.0 4 0 0
2018 9.5 0.0 5 0 0
2017 5.9 2.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · MI · Douglas

313 Breweries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan 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 Tree House Brewing, Sandwich 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avery Brewing Co. World Headquarters 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Funky Buddha Brewery 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milwaukee Brewing Company 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crossroads Blueberry Farm LLC 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE C3 Industries Inc - HQ 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edison Plaza - ESOC 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ann Arbor Service Center 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Douglas Marine Corporation 28 FTE
NAT-TCR Exxel Outdoors, LLC Reno Facility 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dixien LLC 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior (GG) 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Super 1 Foods 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Davis Metal Stamping Inc. 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Homecare Gainesville 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Medical Murray 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100037 91 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: 2023, 2022, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.