Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · New York

Empire Cheese Inc.

Cuba, NY · ~234 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire Cheese Inc. runs at 149% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Empire Cheese Inc.: 4.9 TCR = 149% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire Cheese Inc. safety composite

Empire Cheese Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

Empire Cheese Inc.: 2.8 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2021

Empire Cheese Inc.'s TCR rose 2.4 from 2.8 in 2016 to 5.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Cuba, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 149% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #7/22
  • PHOTO Cady Cheese, LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 58 inj
  • SIZE ~234 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cady Cheese, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Empire Cheese Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire Cheese Inc. averages 4.9 TCR (149% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Empire Cheese Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=4.6 · 2021=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Empire Cheese Inc. falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 22 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in New York.

Empire Cheese Inc. (234 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Empire Cheese Inc.
Empire Cheese Inc. (234 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Empire Cheese Inc. has more employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 5.3 3.3 10 3 0
2019 4.6 3.5 11 1 0
2018 5.7 3.4 15 0 0
2017 6.3 5.1 15 1 0
2016 2.8 2.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · NY · Cuba

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 9 employers in Cuba, 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 Cady Cheese, LLC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burnett Dairy Cooperative 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Doughty Valley Factory Store Office 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glanbia Gooding Cheese Plant 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE RG&E Scottsville Rd 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE ECCO III 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE L.C. Whitford Co., Inc. 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE SmartWatt Energy, Inc. 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Lakes Cheese 233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Allegany County Transit 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR 57222 Allegany County Transit 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crosstex - Cuba, NY 40 FTE
NAT-TCR Whirlpool (WC USX WGA) 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 47 RCT Hanover 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Contractors Materials Company 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CHK Manufacturing, Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4813-48130009-Freeman Expo Houston 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE WA-Bremerton 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE AHI Small Buisness 234 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.