Cheese, imitation or substitute, manufacturing · New York

The Gardener Cheese Co.

Kingston, NY · ~23 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Gardener Cheese Co. runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese, imitation or substitute, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

The Gardener Cheese Co.: 6.0 TCR = 182% of Cheese, imitation or substitute, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Gardener Cheese Co. safety composite

The Gardener Cheese Co. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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

−3.9

2021→2024

The Gardener Cheese Co. injury rate improved

The Gardener Cheese Co.'s TCR fell 3.9 from 3.9 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.9 · 2022=9.5 · 2023=10.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Kingston, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 182% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/22
  • PHOTO Grande Rubicon
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grande Rubicon (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Gardener Cheese Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Gardener Cheese Co. averages 6.0 TCR (182% of the Cheese, imitation or substitute, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

The Gardener Cheese Co. TCR series: 2021=3.9 · 2022=9.5 · 2023=10.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where The Gardener Cheese Co. falls in its industry

377 Cheese, imitation or substitut establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 22 Cheese, imitation or substitut employers in New York.

The Gardener Cheese Co. (23 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 The Gardener Cheese Co.
The Gardener Cheese Co. (23 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

The Gardener Cheese Co. has fewer employees than the Cheese, imitation or substitute, manufac 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 10.6 10.6 2 0 0
2022 9.5 9.5 2 0 0
2021 3.9 3.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · NY · Kingston

377 Cheese, imitation or substitute, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 91 employers in Kingston, 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 Grande Rubicon 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR BelGioioso Cheese - Sherwood 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LaClare Family Creamery, LLC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR White Hill Cheese 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Singer Farms LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sheland Farms LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE McKnight's River Breeze Farm, LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stein Farms LLC 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2504 402 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2504 384 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kingston 335 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unlimited Care, Inc. Kingston, NY 307 FTE
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - SIL2 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ameri-Kleen - Santa Maria Branch 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pomeroy Living Orion Assisted Living & Memory Care 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - CLT2 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eastern Lift Truck Co., Inc. Br18 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Dr. Phillips Memory Care 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Koenig Equipment- Oxford, OH 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roy Rogers Market Street 23 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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