Frozen desserts (except bakery) manufacturing · Maine

Gifford's Dairy, Inc.

Skowhegan, ME · ~58 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gifford's Dairy, Inc. runs at 227% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Frozen desserts (except bakery) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Gifford's Dairy, Inc.: 7.5 TCR = 227% of Frozen desserts (except bakery) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gifford's Dairy, Inc. safety composite

Gifford's Dairy, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Gifford's Dairy, Inc.: 9.2 → 15.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.65× in 2024

Gifford's Dairy, Inc.'s TCR rose 6.7 from 9.2 in 2017 to 15.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311520 · Skowhegan, ME ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 227% of ind

  • DART 12.4 DART
  • RANK P25
  • PHOTO DFA ICE CREAM - BELV…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DFA ICE CREAM - BELVIDERE IL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gifford's Dairy, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gifford's Dairy, Inc. averages 7.5 TCR (227% of the Frozen desserts (except bakery) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Gifford's Dairy, Inc. TCR series: 2017=9.2 · 2018=6.8 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=7.6 · 2022=6.7 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=15.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Gifford's Dairy, Inc. falls in its industry

111 Frozen desserts (except bakery establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Gifford's Dairy, Inc. (58 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 Gifford's Dairy, Inc.
Gifford's Dairy, Inc. (58 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Gifford's Dairy, Inc. has fewer employees than the Frozen desserts (except bakery) manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2024 15.9 12.4 8 1 0
2023 4.7 4.7 2 0 0
2022 6.7 6.7 3 1 0
2021 7.6 5.7 3 1 0
2020 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2019 4.4 0.0 2 0 0
2018 6.8 6.8 3 0 0
2017 9.2 6.9 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311520 · ME · Skowhegan

111 Frozen desserts (except bakery) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 21 employers in Skowhegan, ME · 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 DFA ICE CREAM - BELVIDERE IL 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dutch Creek Foods 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dunkirk Ice Cream Plant (Fieldbrook Foods) 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dippin' Dots Main Plant 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Irving Woodlands LLC 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hebert Construction Lewiston 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE H.B. Fleming 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electrical Systems of Maine 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Somerset Mill 778 FTE
CITY-NEAR Redington Fairview General Hospital 744 FTE
CITY-NEAR Skowhegan Manufacturing 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2143 249 FTE
NAT-TCR East Haven Ice Rink/Recreation 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tony Monaco Landscaping Inc 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Oxford Memory Care GP LTD 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kona-KOA 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 29-NH 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mesa Rim Mission Valley 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corner Market #6068 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tri-county Refuse Service Inc. DBA - AW of Flint/ Republic Services of Flint 58 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.