Processed cheeses manufacturing · New York

Lactalis Heritage Dairy

Walton, NY · ~122 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lactalis Heritage Dairy runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Processed cheeses manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Lactalis Heritage Dairy: 5.7 TCR = 173% of Processed cheeses manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lactalis Heritage Dairy safety composite

Lactalis Heritage Dairy scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−6.0

2022→2023

Lactalis Heritage Dairy injury rate improved

Lactalis Heritage Dairy's TCR fell 6.0 from 8.7 in 2022 to 2.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=8.7 · 2023=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 173% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #8/22
  • PHOTO Saputo Cheese-Black …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~122 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Saputo Cheese-Black Creek (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lactalis Heritage Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lactalis Heritage Dairy averages 5.7 TCR (173% of the Processed cheeses manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lactalis Heritage Dairy TCR series: 2022=8.7 · 2023=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Lactalis Heritage Dairy falls in its industry

377 Processed cheeses manufacturin establishments

Safer than 42% 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 #8 safest of 22 Processed cheeses manufacturin employers in New York.

Lactalis Heritage Dairy (122 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 Lactalis Heritage Dairy
Lactalis Heritage Dairy (122 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Lactalis Heritage Dairy has fewer employees than the Processed cheeses manufacturing 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
2023 2.7 2.7 3 0 0
2022 8.7 6.8 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · NY · Walton

377 Processed cheeses manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 4 employers in Walton, 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 Saputo Cheese-Black Creek 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nuestro Queso Hispanic Cheese Makers 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PINE RIVER PRE-PACK, INC 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bunker Hill Cheese Company LLC 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Diebold Nixdorf Garden City NY 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eltech Industries, Inc 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4371 North Tonawanda Container 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE F. M. Howell & Company-Folding Carton Plant 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kraft Heinz Company 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Empire Metal Works LLC 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR NYSEG Walton/Hamden 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Eventworks Savannah 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mitchell Crane Rental Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bath & Body Works - DC8 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Follett Dairy Farm 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aliso Canyn Station - Bld: 0550 - 15 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Security Luebke Roofing 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Laurels of Huber Heights 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wells Cargo, Inc. 122 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.