Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing · New York

Great Lakes Cheese of New York, Inc.

Adams, NY · ~130 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lakes Cheese of New York, Inc. runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Great Lakes Cheese of New York, Inc.: 6.0 TCR = 183% of Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Cheese of New York, Inc. safety composite

Great Lakes Cheese of New York, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

−1.9

2016→2024

Great Lakes Cheese of New York, Inc. injury rate improved

Great Lakes Cheese of New York, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.9 from 8.6 in 2016 to 6.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.6 · 2017=4.7 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=5.8 · 2021=11.3 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=6.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 183% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #11/22
  • PHOTO Bongards Creameries …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~130 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bongards Creameries South (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Cheese of New York, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Lakes Cheese of New York, Inc. averages 6.0 TCR (183% of the Cheese, natural (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 of New York, Inc. TCR series: 2016=8.6 · 2017=4.7 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=5.8 · 2021=11.3 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=6.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Great Lakes Cheese of New York, Inc. falls in its industry

377 Cheese, natural (except cottag establishments

Safer than 38% 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 #11 safest of 22 Cheese, natural (except cottag employers in New York.

Great Lakes Cheese of New York, Inc. (130 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 of New York, Inc.
Great Lakes Cheese of New York, Inc. (130 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Great Lakes Cheese of New York, Inc. has more employees than the Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), 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 6.8 6.1 8 2 0
2023 3.5 2.8 4 1 0
2022 5.4 4.8 7 1 0
2021 11.3 6.0 11 4 0
2019 5.8 4.3 8 0 0
2018 2.3 1.5 3 0 0
2017 4.7 3.1 6 0 0
2016 8.6 5.5 10 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · NY · Adams

377 Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 8 employers in Adams, 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 Bongards Creameries South 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gilman Cheese 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Valley Cheese 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR LaClare Family Creamery, LLC 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hi-Lite Airfield Services LLC 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ajay Glass Co. 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Team Electric Inc. 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Able Rigging Contractors, LLC. 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR OD Greene Lumber Co Inc 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR O. D. Greene Lumber Co., Inc. 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR ADAMS 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tops #596 47 FTE
NAT-TCR Dennecrepe Incorporated 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacheco and Associates II 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 130 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Transport - 861 861SH 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mid South Baking 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2017 Coborn's Mora 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Terraces of Lake Worth Care Center 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE TSD Logistics, Inc 130 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.