Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses · New York

GC Foods

Syracuse, NY · ~426 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GC Foods runs at 224% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade F.

GC Foods: 7.4 TCR = 224% of Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GC Foods safety composite

GC Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.5

2018→2023

GC Foods injury rate improved

GC Foods's TCR fell 4.5 from 9.7 in 2018 to 5.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=9.7 · 2019=8.0 · 2020=9.7 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Syracuse, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 224% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #11/11
  • PHOTO Kowalski Companies, …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 133 inj
  • SIZE ~426 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kowalski Companies, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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GC Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GC Foods averages 7.4 TCR (224% of the Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

GC Foods TCR series: 2018=9.7 · 2019=8 · 2020=9.7 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where GC Foods falls in its industry

613 Boxed meat produced from purch establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 11 Boxed meat produced from purch employers in New York.

GC Foods (426 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate GC Foods
GC Foods (426 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

GC Foods has more employees than the Boxed meat produced from purchased carca median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2023 5.2 5.2 27 0 0
2022 4.3 4.3 15 0 0
2020 9.7 9.7 26 0 0
2019 8.0 8.0 30 0 0
2018 9.7 6.5 35 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · NY · Syracuse

613 Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 436 employers in Syracuse, 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 Kowalski Companies, Inc. 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prairie Smokehouse Partners LLC 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 2 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lawton Plant 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Manufacturing Plant - Corning 426 FTE
STATE-SIZE Derrick Corporation - Buffalo 426 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2152 426 FTE
STATE-SIZE H.O. Penn Machinery Company, Inc 426 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's Health 4,299 FTE
CITY-NEAR SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 3,970 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center 3,720 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center-SJH-NY 2,803 FTE
NAT-TCR Pembroke Pines, Fl #00282 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Lake View 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wildwood School Dist 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tole Electric Incorporated 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - OAK7 426 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jordan Public Schools, ISD #717 426 FTE
NAT-SIZE St Leonard 426 FTE
NAT-SIZE Matcor Metal Fabrication Morton 426 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.