Fruit sorting, grading, and packing · New York

Lake Ontario Fruit, Inc.

Albion, NY · ~80 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Lake Ontario Fruit, Inc. runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fruit sorting, grading, and packing workplace, earning a grade C.

Lake Ontario Fruit, Inc.: 5.0 TCR = 112% of Fruit sorting, grading, and packing BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lake Ontario Fruit, Inc. safety composite

Lake Ontario Fruit, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Lake Ontario Fruit, Inc.: 4.8 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.63× in 2023

Lake Ontario Fruit, Inc.'s TCR rose 4.8 from 4.8 in 2021 to 9.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Albion, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 112% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Famoso Nut Company, …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Famoso Nut Company, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · New York employers → · Look up another →

Lake Ontario Fruit, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lake Ontario Fruit, Inc. averages 5.0 TCR (112% of the Fruit sorting, grading, and packing BLS benchmark).

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

Lake Ontario Fruit, Inc. TCR series: 2021=4.8 · 2022=0.7 · 2023=9.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Lake Ontario Fruit, Inc. falls in its industry

666 Fruit sorting, grading, and pa establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

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 Fruit sorting, grading, and pa employers in New York.

Lake Ontario Fruit, Inc. (80 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lake Ontario Fruit, Inc.
Lake Ontario Fruit, Inc. (80 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Lake Ontario Fruit, Inc. has more employees than the Fruit sorting, grading, and packing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 9.6 8.3 7 0 0
2022 0.7 0.6 5 0 0
2021 4.8 4.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · NY · Albion

666 Fruit sorting, grading, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 29 employers in Albion, 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 Famoso Nut Company, LLC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sun Pacific Shippers | Euclid Packinghouse 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mountain States Produce LLC 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Booth Ranches LLC-BR1 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Taconic Biosciences, Inc. Worldwide Headquarters Hudson 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE First Realty Management 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE 105625 - Jett Carrying - 149MW High River Racking 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hildreth Electric 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint-Gobain Adfors America INC Albion 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3607 210 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint-Gobain ADFORS (Albion,NY) 208 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint-Gobain (Albion,NY) 205 FTE
NAT-TCR Tufte Manor 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR New Life Community Services, Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Laclede 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1204 MURRAY, KY 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Washington Mills - Hennepin, IL 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Talking Stick Golf Club 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Burlington #228 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village Woods Retirement & Assisted Living 80 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, 2021. 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.