Grain mills (except animal feed, breakfast cereal, rice) · New York

The Birkett Mills

Penn Yan, NY · ~38 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Birkett Mills runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grain mills (except animal feed, breakfast cereal, rice) workplace, earning a grade C.

The Birkett Mills: 3.7 TCR = 111% of Grain mills (except animal feed, breakfast cereal, rice) BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Birkett Mills safety composite

The Birkett Mills scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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 3.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−2.5

2021→2024

The Birkett Mills injury rate improved

The Birkett Mills's TCR fell 2.5 from 5.6 in 2021 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=5.6 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311211 · Penn Yan, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 111% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO Teutopolis
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Teutopolis (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Birkett Mills in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Birkett Mills averages 3.7 TCR (111% of the Grain mills (except animal feed, breakfast cereal, rice) BLS benchmark).

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

The Birkett Mills TCR series: 2021=5.6 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where The Birkett Mills falls in its industry

209 Grain mills (except animal fee establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

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 11 Grain mills (except animal fee employers in New York.

The Birkett Mills (38 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate The Birkett Mills
The Birkett Mills (38 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3

The Birkett Mills has fewer employees than the Grain mills (except animal feed, breakfa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2023 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2022 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2021 5.6 5.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311211 · NY · Penn Yan

209 Grain mills (except animal feed, breakfast cereal, rice) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 23 employers in Penn Yan, 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 Teutopolis 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardent Mills Omaha B 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Worthington 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fostoria Mill 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Spruce Haven Farm, LLC 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora-Oakwood Dairy, LLC 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eldred Brothers / Main Farm 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hanehan Family Dairy, LLC 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR KANPAK Manufacturing Penn Yan 217 FTE
CITY-NEAR Silgan Plastics Penn Yan 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR KANPAKUS Manufacturing Penn Yan 169 FTE
NAT-TCR Joe's Towing - Bloomington 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pepperidge Farms 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Southwest Salt Co. 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - PHX6 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wardley Industrial Inc 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE EaglePicher Technologies - Pittsburg 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carrington 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hoffman Sanitation Services 38 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.