Breweries · Kentucky

West Sixth Brewing Company, LLC

Lexington, KY · ~107 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Sixth Brewing Company, LLC runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Breweries workplace, earning a grade D.

West Sixth Brewing Company, LLC: 5.8 TCR = 177% of Breweries BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Sixth Brewing Company, LLC safety composite

West Sixth Brewing Company, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

West Sixth Brewing Company, LLC: 2.0 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2024

West Sixth Brewing Company, LLC's TCR rose 6.0 from 2.0 in 2022 to 8.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312120 · Lexington, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 177% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO F.X. Matt Brewing Co
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~107 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: F.X. Matt Brewing Co (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Sixth Brewing Company, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Sixth Brewing Company, LLC averages 5.8 TCR (177% of the Breweries BLS benchmark).

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

West Sixth Brewing Company, LLC TCR series: 2022=2 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=8 · BLS 3.3

Where West Sixth Brewing Company, LLC falls in its industry

313 Breweries establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Breweries employers in Kentucky.

West Sixth Brewing Company, LLC (107 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 West Sixth Brewing Company, LLC
West Sixth Brewing Company, LLC (107 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.7

West Sixth Brewing Company, LLC has more 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 8.0 4.0 4 0 0
2023 7.5 0.0 4 0 0
2022 2.0 2.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312120 · KY · Lexington

313 Breweries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 652 employers in Lexington, KY · 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 F.X. Matt Brewing Co 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shawmut 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boulevard Brewing Company 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lost Coast Brewery 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ale-8-One Bottling Company 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crane Composites 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE thyssenkrupp Rothe Erde USA Inc 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE BADA 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Kentucky - Main Campus - Fayette County 11,013 FTE
CITY-NEAR UK Healthcare 9,922 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central KY - Gatton Beaumont 3,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central Ky - High Street 3,895 FTE
NAT-TCR Blackfoot - BAF 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kamps Pallets Columbus 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Queens 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 10646 Park City 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Herr Foods - 040 Transportation Nottingham 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE White Bluff Plant 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Akrion Technologies 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE 862 - Meijer Central Kitchen Deli 107 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. 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.