Beer brewing · North Carolina

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company (Brewery)

Mills River, NC · ~220 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company (Brewery) runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Beer brewing workplace, earning a grade B.

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company (Brewery): 2.2 TCR = 66% of Beer brewing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company (Brewery) safety composite

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company (Brewery) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company (Brewery) held a steady TCR band

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company (Brewery)'s TCR held near 0.2 from 2.3 in 2023 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.3 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Mills River, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 66% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #6/12
  • PHOTO Molson Coors Beverag…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~220 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Molson Coors Beverage Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sierra Nevada Brewing Company (Brewery) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sierra Nevada Brewing Company (Brewery) averages 2.2 TCR (66% of the Beer brewing BLS benchmark).

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

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company (Brewery) TCR series: 2023=2.3 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Sierra Nevada Brewing Company (Brewery) falls in its industry

313 Beer brewing establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 12 Beer brewing employers in North Carolina.

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company (Brewery) (220 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 Sierra Nevada Brewing Company (Brewery)
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company (Brewery) (220 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company (Brewery) has more employees than the Beer brewing median and a lower 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
2024 2.0 2.0 4 0 0
2023 2.3 1.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · NC · Mills River

313 Beer brewing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 33 employers in Mills River, NC · 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 Molson Coors Beverage Company 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Terrapin Beer Company-Athens 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR St Louis Brewery 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Tier Brewing - Lakewood Brewery 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Taylor Brothers 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE OPW FCS 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant # 1 220 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elastic Therapy.LLC 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR Linamar Light Metals-MR 566 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mills River 372 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPM Raflatac Mills River 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPM Raflatac, Inc 259 FTE
NAT-TCR Jack Richeson & Co. 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 135 Lake St Louis 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Microbrush 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Terrell Healthcare 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hotel Zaza Houston 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kypad - Paducah 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE Canton 220 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Federal Management, Inc. 220 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.