Ale brewing · Wisconsin

Sprecher Brewing Co

Glendale, WI · ~102 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sprecher Brewing Co runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ale brewing workplace, earning a grade D.

Sprecher Brewing Co: 4.9 TCR = 148% of Ale brewing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sprecher Brewing Co safety composite

Sprecher Brewing Co scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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)
D 4.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.2

2017→2024

Sprecher Brewing Co injury rate improved

Sprecher Brewing Co's TCR fell 5.2 from 7.8 in 2017 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.8 · 2018=3.5 · 2021=5.8 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Glendale, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 148% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/14
  • PHOTO Bear Republic Brewin…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~102 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bear Republic Brewing Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sprecher Brewing Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sprecher Brewing Co averages 4.9 TCR (148% of the Ale brewing BLS benchmark).

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

Sprecher Brewing Co TCR series: 2017=7.8 · 2018=3.5 · 2021=5.8 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Sprecher Brewing Co falls in its industry

313 Ale brewing establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 14 Ale brewing employers in Wisconsin.

Sprecher Brewing Co (102 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 Sprecher Brewing Co
Sprecher Brewing Co (102 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Sprecher Brewing Co has more employees than the Ale 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
2024 2.6 0.0 4 0 0
2023 4.8 3.9 5 0 0
2021 5.8 4.6 5 0 0
2018 3.5 1.8 2 0 0
2017 7.8 5.8 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · WI · Glendale

313 Ale brewing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 36 employers in Glendale, WI · 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 Bear Republic Brewing Co., Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kings & Convicts BP LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dry Dock Brewing Company 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wicked Weed Brewing Portsmouth 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lakeside Foods, Inc Manitowoc Plant 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holton Brothers, Inc. 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fromm Family Foods, LLC. 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clasen Quality Chocolate - Corporate 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clarios HQ Glendale 594 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brady Worldwide Incorporated - Florist Avenue Facility 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-WIMIL40 260 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-AHIS1082 255 FTE
NAT-TCR a growing concern landscapes 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Greater Lakes Mental Health 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Oldcastle Materials 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Il Cmop 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Raley's O-N-E Market 222- Roseville 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE C&D Hughes, Inc. 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE W Miami 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Springlake 102 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, 2021, 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.