Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · New York

Kraft Heinz Foods Company - Lowville, NY

Name: Kraft Heinz Foods Company - Lowville, NY Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Lowville, NY · ~424 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Kraft Heinz Foods Company - Lowville, NY runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Kraft Heinz Foods Company - Lowville, NY: 2.7 TCR = 83% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kraft Heinz Foods Company - Lowville, NY safety composite

Kraft Heinz Foods Company - Lowville, NY scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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).

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

Kraft Heinz Foods Company - Lowville, NY: 2.2 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.02× in 2019

Kraft Heinz Foods Company - Lowville, NY's TCR rose 1.1 from 2.2 in 2017 to 3.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Lowville, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 83% of ind

DART 2.8 DART
RANK #4/22
PHOTO Plymouth
BOOK 2y book
INJ 21 inj
SIZE ~424 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plymouth (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Kraft Heinz Foods Company - Lowville, NY averages 2.7 TCR (83% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Kraft Heinz Foods Company - Lowville, NY TCR series: 2017=2.2 · 2019=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Kraft Heinz Foods Company - Lowville, NY falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 22 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in New York.

Kraft Heinz Foods Company - Lowville, NY (424 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Kraft Heinz Foods Company - Lowville, NY has more employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu median and a lower 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
2019	3.3	2.8	11	3	0
2017	2.2	1.3	10	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · NY · Lowville

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 16 employers in Lowville, NY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Plymouth	PLYMOUTH, WI	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Schreiber Foods	WEST BEND, WI	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Agropur Inc. - Jerome Cheese Co	JEROME, ID	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Leprino Foods Lemoore East	LEMOORE, CA	2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Citi Bike NYC	NEW YORK	424 FTE
STATE-SIZE	St. Joseph's Hospital	ELMIRA	424 FTE
STATE-SIZE	261 Millennium Broadway	NEW YORK	424 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sharpe Reservation	FISHKILL	424 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 5498	Lowville	235 FTE
CITY-NEAR	5498	Lowville	217 FTE
CITY-NEAR	QubicaAMF Pins Division	Lowville	94 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Marks Farms	Lowville	69 FTE
NAT-TCR	Laurelwood	Dayton, OH	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Navistar Direct marketing	Federick, MD	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	6962-Swy 0029 3208	Arcadia, CA	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	6962-Swy 0025 1500	Kihei, HI	2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	JR Simplot - Food - Grand Forks	Grand Forks, ND	424 FTE
NAT-SIZE	IEA-C	Indianapolis, IN	424 FTE
NAT-SIZE	LW Engineering Plant 4	Blissfield, MI	424 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Specialty Physicians of Illinois, LLC	Olympia Fields, IL	424 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: 2019, 2017. 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.