Breweries · Minnesota

Surly Brewing Company - MSP

Minneapolis, MN · ~226 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Surly Brewing Company - MSP runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Breweries workplace, earning a grade B.

Surly Brewing Company - MSP: 1.9 TCR = 57% of Breweries BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Surly Brewing Company - MSP safety composite

Surly Brewing Company - MSP scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

Surly Brewing Company - MSP: 1.1 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2024

Surly Brewing Company - MSP's TCR rose 1.0 from 1.1 in 2020 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Minneapolis, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 57% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #2/11
  • PHOTO Redhook Brewery and …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~226 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Redhook Brewery and Brewpub (0.0 TCR gap)

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Surly Brewing Company - MSP in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Surly Brewing Company - MSP averages 1.9 TCR (57% 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 - MSP TCR series: 2020=1.1 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Surly Brewing Company - MSP falls in its industry

313 Breweries establishments

Safer than 81% 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 #2 safest of 11 Breweries employers in Minnesota.

Surly Brewing Company - MSP (226 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 Surly Brewing Company - MSP
Surly Brewing Company - MSP (226 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Surly Brewing Company - MSP 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 2.2 1.1 2 0 0
2023 2.3 1.1 2 0 0
2020 1.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · MN · Minneapolis

313 Breweries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 1,321 employers in Minneapolis, MN · 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 Redhook Brewery and Brewpub 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wicked Weed Brewing - Funk House 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Land-Grant Brewing Company, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Molson Coors 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Littfin Truss Co 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty Packaging, Golden Valley 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Branch Extrusion - CORP 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0751 - Vadnais Heights 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Minnesota Twin Cities 22,522 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN950 MN TELECOMMUTER 12,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0501 - City Center 8,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hennepin County Medical Center 7,030 FTE
NAT-TCR Porterville CA 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Clean Harbors Recycling Services of Ohio LLC 67SH 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 10246 Scottsdale 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Charleston Gate Company, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 10563 South Capitol Hill 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital St Louis 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-6835 Silver Crest Road 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chicago Postal CHIPS (LDS) 226 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, 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.