Breweries · Michigan

Short's Brewing Company Production Facility

Elk Rapids, MI · ~70 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Short's Brewing Company Production Facility runs at 242% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Breweries workplace, earning a grade F.

Short's Brewing Company Production Facility: 8.0 TCR = 242% of Breweries BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Short's Brewing Company Production Facility safety composite

Short's Brewing Company Production Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Short's Brewing Company Production Facility: 9.2 → 11.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 11.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.43× in 2019

Short's Brewing Company Production Facility's TCR rose 2.3 from 9.2 in 2017 to 11.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Elk Rapids, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 242% of ind

  • DART 11.4 DART
  • RANK #14/17
  • PHOTO Bale Breaker Brewing…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bale Breaker Brewing Company, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Short's Brewing Company Production Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Short's Brewing Company Production Facility averages 8.0 TCR (242% of the Breweries BLS benchmark).

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

Short's Brewing Company Production Facility TCR series: 2017=9.2 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=11.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Short's Brewing Company Production Facility falls in its industry

313 Breweries establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #14 safest of 17 Breweries employers in Michigan.

Short's Brewing Company Production Facility (70 employees, TCR 8.0) 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 Short's Brewing Company Production Facility
Short's Brewing Company Production Facility (70 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Short's Brewing Company Production Facility 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
2019 11.4 11.4 6 0 0
2018 3.4 3.4 2 0 0
2017 9.2 5.5 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · MI · Elk Rapids

313 Breweries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 5 employers in Elk Rapids, MI · 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 Bale Breaker Brewing Company, LLC 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Honolulu Beerworks 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Utah Brewers Cooperative 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ballast Point - Scripps Ranch 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trail Street 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Christman Company - West Michigan 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Retail Contractors of Puerto Rico Inc 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Earthcom, Inc. 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Burnette Foods, Elk Rapids 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5025_11569 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Village of Elk Rapids 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elk Rapids Engineering 33 FTE
NAT-TCR Kentuckiana's Premier Truck Center-Indiana 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbia Store 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0025 0993 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR KKSP Precision Machining Glendale Heights 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE LA Mega Parts Distribution Center - Compton 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Insource Performance Solutions at Cummins Rocky Mount 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Windsor WECO 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE E.R. Wagner Manufacturing Co 70 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: 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.