Breweries · Minnesota

Surly Brewing Company - BC

Brooklyn Center, MN · ~19 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Surly Brewing Company - BC runs at 389% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Breweries workplace, earning a grade F.

Surly Brewing Company - BC: 12.8 TCR = 389% of Breweries BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Surly Brewing Company - BC safety composite

Surly Brewing Company - BC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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 12.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

−3.2

2020→2024

Surly Brewing Company - BC injury rate improved

Surly Brewing Company - BC's TCR fell 3.2 from 13.4 in 2020 to 10.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=13.4 · 2023=15.0 · 2024=10.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Brooklyn Center, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.8 · 389% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #11/11
  • PHOTO Level Beer
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Level Beer (0.0 TCR gap)

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Surly Brewing Company - BC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Surly Brewing Company - BC averages 12.8 TCR (389% of the Breweries BLS benchmark).

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

Surly Brewing Company - BC TCR series: 2020=13.4 · 2023=15 · 2024=10.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Surly Brewing Company - BC falls in its industry

313 Breweries establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 11 Breweries employers in Minnesota.

Surly Brewing Company - BC (19 employees, TCR 12.8) 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 Surly Brewing Company - BC
Surly Brewing Company - BC (19 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Surly Brewing Company - BC 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
2024 10.2 5.1 2 0 0
2023 15.0 0.0 2 0 0
2020 13.4 6.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · MN · Brooklyn Center

313 Breweries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 85 employers in Brooklyn Center, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Level Beer 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Earth Rider Brewing 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freetail Brewing Co. 1604 Location 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indeed Brewing Company - Minneapolis Brewery 12.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sabin Breeding 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Tilney MN 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danvers 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glyndon, MN 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medtronic MECC 1,252 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medtronic MECC North 1,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brooklyn Center Ambulance 416 FTE
CITY-NEAR Topgolf Brooklyn Center 379 FTE
NAT-TCR Cleary Building - Verona 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR John Pomp Studios 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1153 - Brick 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Summit Mfg. Corp. 12.8 TCR

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, 2020. 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.