Smoking tobacco (e.g., cigarette, pipe) manufacturing · New York

Lake Erie Tobacco Company

Killbuck, NY · ~79 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lake Erie Tobacco Company runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Smoking tobacco (e.g., cigarette, pipe) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Lake Erie Tobacco Company: 2.8 TCR = 86% of Smoking tobacco (e.g., cigarette, pipe) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lake Erie Tobacco Company safety composite

Lake Erie Tobacco Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Lake Erie Tobacco Company: 3.1 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.3× in 2020

Lake Erie Tobacco Company's TCR rose 0.5 from 3.1 in 2018 to 3.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312230 · Killbuck, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 86% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Xcaliber International
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Xcaliber International (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lake Erie Tobacco Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lake Erie Tobacco Company averages 2.8 TCR (86% of the Smoking tobacco (e.g., cigarette, pipe) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lake Erie Tobacco Company TCR series: 2018=3.1 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Lake Erie Tobacco Company falls in its industry

53 Smoking tobacco (e.g., cigaret establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Smoking tobacco (e.g., cigaret employers in New York.

Lake Erie Tobacco Company (79 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Lake Erie Tobacco Company
Lake Erie Tobacco Company (79 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 153 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Lake Erie Tobacco Company has fewer employees than the Smoking tobacco (e.g., cigarette, pipe) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2020 3.7 3.7 3 0 0
2019 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2018 3.1 3.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312230 · NY · Killbuck

53 Smoking tobacco (e.g., cigarette, pipe) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 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 Xcaliber International 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richmond MC - JMC 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tobacco Processing Division 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dosal Tobacco Corporation 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mott Haven Substation 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hewlett District 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockmore Contracting Corp. 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carver Construction Inc. 79 FTE
NAT-TCR DGS Aviation Services : TPA - Tampa 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Primal Elements Inc 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 147 Quickchek Food Store 147 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR NGC - Waukegan Plant 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : ECP - Panama City 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Clemente Villas by the Sea 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boyer's Food Markets -Fleetwood 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE ARYZTA - Alsip 79 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.