Breweries · California

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company

Chico, CA · ~564 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Breweries workplace, earning a grade C.

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company: 3.4 TCR = 102% of Breweries BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company safety composite

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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 held a steady TCR band

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.6 in 2017 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.6 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=3.0 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Chico, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 102% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #13/46
  • PHOTO New Glarus Brewing Co.
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 127 inj
  • SIZE ~564 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Glarus Brewing Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sierra Nevada Brewing Company averages 3.4 TCR (102% of the Breweries BLS benchmark).

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

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company TCR series: 2017=2.6 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=3 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=4.1 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Sierra Nevada Brewing Company falls in its industry

313 Breweries establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 46 Breweries employers in California.

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company (564 employees, TCR 3.4) 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
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company (564 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company has more employees than the Breweries 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 2.6 1.8 10 0 0
2023 5.2 4.1 20 0 0
2022 4.1 3.4 16 1 0
2021 3.5 1.4 16 4 0
2020 3.0 1.9 14 3 0
2019 3.4 1.9 21 0 0
2018 2.6 1.3 13 3 0
2017 2.6 1.7 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · CA · Chico

313 Breweries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 189 employers in Chico, CA · 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 New Glarus Brewing Co. 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sly Fox Brewing Company 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paso Robles CA 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Molson Coors Beverage Company USA 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dan Avila & Sons - Farming 564 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wish Farms CA - Salinas 564 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Service L.L.C. 564 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mariani Nut Company 564 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-11 4,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Enloe Medical Center Employees 3,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 72 2,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 521 2,370 FTE
NAT-TCR Seymour Ambulance 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pocatello ID FXFE-POC 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Keller Technology Corporation - Buffalo 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR North Dartmouth 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA - Chocolate Bayou Works 564 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schaeffler Group USA Inc. - Cheraw 2 564 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jordan Carriers 564 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hopewell Nursery - Bridgeton 564 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.