Cigarettes manufacturing · New York

Lake Erie Tobacco Company

Kill Buck, NY · ~141 workers · 4 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

Lake Erie Tobacco Company runs at 205% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cigarettes manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Lake Erie Tobacco Company: 6.8 TCR = 205% of Cigarettes manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y 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 total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

TCR Δ

−11.2

2016→2024

Lake Erie Tobacco Company injury rate improved

Lake Erie Tobacco Company's TCR fell 11.2 from 13.9 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 13.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.9 · 2021=5.1 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312230 · Kill Buck, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 205% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Sutliff Tobacco Comp…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~141 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sutliff Tobacco Company (0.1 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 6.8 TCR (205% of the Cigarettes 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: 2016=13.9 · 2021=5.1 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Lake Erie Tobacco Company falls in its industry

53 Cigarettes manufacturing establishments

Safer than 17% 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 #4 safest of 4 Cigarettes manufacturing employers in New York.

Lake Erie Tobacco Company (141 employees, TCR 6.8) 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 (141 employees, TCR 6.8) 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 Cigarettes manufacturing 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
2024 2.7 2.0 4 0 0
2023 5.3 2.0 8 0 0
2021 5.1 5.1 6 0 0
2016 13.9 5.1 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312230 · NY · Kill Buck

53 Cigarettes 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 Sutliff Tobacco Company 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Altadis USA Inc. 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fumari Inc 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Park 500 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 90004050-Farley Trail Hall JV 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peckham Road Corp 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE Palatial Concrete Ltd. 141 FTE
STATE-SIZE BAY SHORE NY DEPOT 141 FTE
NAT-TCR Nre Hagerstown Inc 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Milwaukee,WI - 321 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakeshore Manor Nursing & Rehab 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Turlock Purina Feed Mill 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brooklyn Middle School 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Formall Inc 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stamford Hilton 141 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Denver 141 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, 2021, 2016. 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.