Powders, baking, manufacturing · New York

Balchem Corp

Slate Hill, NY · ~67 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Balchem Corp runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Powders, baking, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Balchem Corp: 2.4 TCR = 58% of Powders, baking, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Balchem Corp safety composite

Balchem Corp scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

Balchem Corp held a steady TCR band

Balchem Corp's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.7 in 2017 to 1.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.7 · 2018=3.2 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311999 · Slate Hill, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 58% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #5/16
  • PHOTO Dutch American Foods…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dutch American Foods, Inc. Beecher (0.0 TCR gap)

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Balchem Corp in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Balchem Corp averages 2.4 TCR (58% of the Powders, baking, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Balchem Corp TCR series: 2017=1.7 · 2018=3.2 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=1.5 · BLS 4.1

Where Balchem Corp falls in its industry

335 Powders, baking, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 16 Powders, baking, manufacturing employers in New York.

Balchem Corp (67 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 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 Balchem Corp
Balchem Corp (67 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Balchem Corp has fewer employees than the Powders, baking, manufacturing 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
2021 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2020 3.1 2.0 3 0 0
2018 3.2 2.4 4 0 0
2017 1.7 1.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311999 · NY · Slate Hill

335 Powders, baking, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 5 employers in Slate Hill, NY · 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 Dutch American Foods, Inc. Beecher 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MSI Express - Hammond 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MycoTechnology 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Proven Partners Group 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 100 OLD CNTRY RD HICKS-NY08 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quality Lineals USA, Inc. 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Penn II Widening Skanska Penn Station Construction JV 90008290 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Specialty Construction System Inc. 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boyce Excavating, Inc. 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Balchem - Slate Hill 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Town of Wawayanda 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4021-400757500 41 FTE
NAT-TCR Knights Marine and Industrial Services Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Intermountain Auto Recycling 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wegmans Bel Air 053 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Roberts McNutt 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cabo Construction Corp 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bickford of Mission Springs 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mutual Distributing Company - Greensboro 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Graciano Corp 67 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: 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017. 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.