Beverages, milk based (except dietary), manufacturing · Vermont

Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy

Brattleboro, VT · ~148 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy runs at 330% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beverages, milk based (except dietary), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy: 10.9 TCR = 330% of Beverages, milk based (except dietary), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy safety composite

Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy: 6.4 → 15.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 15.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2018

Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy's TCR rose 8.9 from 6.4 in 2016 to 15.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311511 · Brattleboro, VT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 330% of ind

  • DART 12.5 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO UNC Buffalo Plant & …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~148 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UNC Buffalo Plant & Distribution (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy averages 10.9 TCR (330% of the Beverages, milk based (except dietary), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy TCR series: 2016=6.4 · 2018=15.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy falls in its industry

457 Beverages, milk based (except establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Vermont alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Beverages, milk based (except employers in Vermont.

Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy (148 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy
Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy (148 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy has more employees than the Beverages, milk based (except dietary), median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 15.3 12.5 14 2 0
2016 6.4 4.8 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · VT · Brattleboro

457 Beverages, milk based (except dietary), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 47 employers in Brattleboro, 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 UNC Buffalo Plant & Distribution 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR LIFEWAY WISCONSIN, INC 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hastings Creamery LLC 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc. 11.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE NAI-0033-0033-00616 FAC-00616-BERLIN-VT 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0366 - RUT 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE NSA Industries 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE Essex 147 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brattleboro Memorial Hospital 669 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brattleboro Retreat 661 FTE
CITY-NEAR G.S. Precision, Inc 360 FTE
CITY-NEAR CS Wholesale Grocers : Brattleboro, VT (GDC) 298 FTE
NAT-TCR Heartland Ag - Iowa 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Bridge At Farmington 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR John W. Thrower Inc. 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Reading Electric Motor Service Inc. 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fort Madison Plant 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clear Creek Nursing and Rehabilitation 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acushnet 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highlands Nursing and Rehab 148 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, 2016. 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.