Apple orchards · New York

Giroux Orchards, LLC

Chazy, NY · ~86 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Giroux Orchards, LLC runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Apple orchards workplace, earning a grade B.

Giroux Orchards, LLC: 2.8 TCR = 61% of Apple orchards BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Giroux Orchards, LLC safety composite

Giroux Orchards, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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

−2.3

2016→2024

Giroux Orchards, LLC injury rate improved

Giroux Orchards, LLC's TCR fell 2.3 from 4.0 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.0 · 2018=11.0 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=1.0 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111331 · Chazy, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 61% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #7/10
  • PHOTO Dawson's Orchards
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dawson's Orchards (0.0 TCR gap)

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Giroux Orchards, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Giroux Orchards, LLC averages 2.8 TCR (61% of the Apple orchards BLS benchmark).

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

Giroux Orchards, LLC TCR series: 2016=4 · 2018=11 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=1 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Giroux Orchards, LLC falls in its industry

90 Apple orchards establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

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 10 Apple orchards employers in New York.

Giroux Orchards, LLC (86 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 Giroux Orchards, LLC
Giroux Orchards, LLC (86 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Giroux Orchards, LLC has more employees than the Apple orchards median and a lower 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
2024 1.7 0.9 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2021 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2020 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2019 1.7 0.0 2 0 0
2018 11.0 0.9 12 0 0
2016 4.0 4.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111331 · NY · Chazy

90 Apple orchards employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 3 employers in Chazy, 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 Dawson's Orchards 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ridgeview Orchards 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seamans Orchard LC 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peters Orchards, Inc 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE PlugPV LLC 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE HFZ Capital Group 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alure 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE TAM Enterprises Inc 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Giroux's Poultry Farm, Inc. 195 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schluter Systems LP Chazy 73 FTE
NAT-TCR E/M Coating Services 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR McGill AirClean LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 6 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty Electronics Inc - A8 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gulf Coast Electric Cooperative 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE OFS BRANDS Plant #5 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Country Meadows of Forks 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fisher Dynamics - Sterling Heights 86 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, 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.