Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Connecticut

Liuzzi Cheese

Hamden, CT · ~109 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Liuzzi Cheese runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Liuzzi Cheese: 5.3 TCR = 159% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Liuzzi Cheese safety composite

Liuzzi Cheese scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−2.3

2023→2024

Liuzzi Cheese injury rate improved

Liuzzi Cheese's TCR fell 2.3 from 6.4 in 2023 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.4 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Hamden, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 159% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK P46
  • PHOTO Emmir Roth USA Monro…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Emmir Roth USA Monroe Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Liuzzi Cheese in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Liuzzi Cheese averages 5.3 TCR (159% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Liuzzi Cheese TCR series: 2023=6.4 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Liuzzi Cheese falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Liuzzi Cheese (109 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 Liuzzi Cheese
Liuzzi Cheese (109 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Liuzzi Cheese has fewer employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu 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
2024 4.1 4.1 5 0 0
2023 6.4 5.6 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · CT · Hamden

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 80 employers in Hamden, CT · 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 Emmir Roth USA Monroe Plant 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cacique Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prairie Farms Dairy - Rochester 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brewster Cheese - Stockton 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Wtby Eagle St 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE HP Hood 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acme Monaco Corporation 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terex Norwalk 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR CTtransit 1,290 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitney Center 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hamden Markets LLC, dba ShopRite of Hamden 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arden House 226 FTE
NAT-TCR Cerno LLC 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Medical City Frisco 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Foster Electric Corporation 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Colby Metal, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Construction 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE REG OFF 20 - Midwest 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fire Department 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palomar Vista Healthcare Center 109 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.