Apple orchards · Vermont

Champlain Orchards

Shoreham, VT · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Champlain Orchards runs at 204% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Apple orchards workplace, earning a grade F.

Champlain Orchards: 9.2 TCR = 204% of Apple orchards BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Champlain Orchards safety composite

Champlain Orchards scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Champlain Orchards: 6.0 → 12.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.34× in 2018

Champlain Orchards's TCR rose 6.3 from 6.0 in 2017 to 12.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111331 · Shoreham, VT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 204% of ind

  • DART 12.3 DART
  • RANK P22
  • PHOTO Columbia Valley Frui…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Columbia Valley Fruit, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Champlain Orchards in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Champlain Orchards averages 9.2 TCR (204% of the Apple orchards BLS benchmark).

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

Champlain Orchards TCR series: 2017=6 · 2018=12.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Champlain Orchards falls in its industry

90 Apple orchards establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Champlain Orchards (49 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Champlain Orchards
Champlain Orchards (49 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Champlain Orchards has fewer employees than the Apple orchards median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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
2018 12.3 12.3 7 0 0
2017 6.0 6.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111331 · VT · Shoreham

90 Apple orchards employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 4 employers in Shoreham, VT · 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 Columbia Valley Fruit, LLC 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baker Produce - Goosehill I 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR R & L Orchard Co. 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CUSTOM ORCHARDS 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harrison Concrete Construction, Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hearthstone Quality Home Heating Products, Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE TAM Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE 9288-476 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR WhistlePig Whiskey LLC. 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milk Marketing - NEAC - Shoreham VT 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Town of Shoreham 5 FTE
NAT-TCR Southern Recycling, LLC. 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Citi Bike NYC 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR O-Ku Sushi Charlotte 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0005 0390 9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chinatown Station 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sanoh America 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Autotrol Corporation 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Store #105 (Orem, UT) 49 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: 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.