Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · New York

Great Lakes Cheese

Cuba, NY · ~233 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lakes Cheese runs at 206% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Great Lakes Cheese: 6.8 TCR = 206% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Cheese safety composite

Great Lakes Cheese scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

Great Lakes Cheese held a steady TCR band

Great Lakes Cheese's TCR held near 0.3 from 5.9 in 2022 to 5.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.9 · 2023=8.8 · 2024=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 206% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #12/22
  • PHOTO Rothenbuhler Cheesem…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 54 inj
  • SIZE ~233 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rothenbuhler Cheesemakers, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Cheese in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Lakes Cheese averages 6.8 TCR (206% 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

Great Lakes Cheese TCR series: 2022=5.9 · 2023=8.8 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Great Lakes Cheese falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #12 safest of 22 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in New York.

Great Lakes Cheese (233 employees, TCR 6.8) 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 Great Lakes Cheese
Great Lakes Cheese (233 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Great Lakes Cheese 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
2024 5.6 4.8 13 1 0
2023 8.8 7.5 27 0 0
2022 5.9 4.2 14 3 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 Rothenbuhler Cheesemakers, Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lactalis American Group Inc. - Belmont 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bongards' Creameries 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agropur-Le Sueur Cheese Company 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kleinknecht Electric Co., Inc. 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1600 Motor Pkwy 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALBANY NY (PROSPECT RD) PLANT 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fulton Thermal Corp - Centerville Road 233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Empire Cheese Inc. 234 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 Hilltop Companies-River Terminal 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Impact Logistics 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mission Point of Forest Hills 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kamps Pallets Niles 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lavazza North America - WCR 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE Benton Foundry, Inc. 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highland Clarksburg Hospital 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE Irw, Ca 233 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. 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.