Dairy · New York

UNC - Rochester Plant & Distribution

Name: UNC - Rochester Plant & Distribution Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Rochester, NY · ~160 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 12.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

UNC - Rochester Plant & Distribution runs at 372% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dairy workplace, earning a grade F.

UNC - Rochester Plant & Distribution: 12.3 TCR = 372% of Dairy BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

UNC - Rochester Plant & Distribution safety composite

UNC - Rochester Plant & Distribution scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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).

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 12.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers
DART rate: F 12.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 50% 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

UNC - Rochester Plant & Distribution: 12.3 → 13.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 13.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2021

UNC - Rochester Plant & Distribution's TCR rose 0.9 from 12.3 in 2019 to 13.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311511 · Rochester, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.3 · 372% of ind

DART 12.6 DART
RANK #42/43
PHOTO Hastings Co-op Cream…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 57 inj
SIZE ~160 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hastings Co-op Creamery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southeast Milk

12.5
Prairie Farms

12.4
This site

12.3
Hastings Co-op

12.3
Lochmead Dairy

12.1

What this shows UNC - Rochester Plant & Distribution averages 12.3 TCR (372% of the Dairy BLS benchmark).

UNC - Rochester Plant & Distribution TCR series: 2019=12.3 · 2020=11.3 · 2021=13.3 · BLS 3.3

Where UNC - Rochester Plant & Distribution falls in its industry

457 Dairy establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 43 Dairy employers in New York.

UNC - Rochester Plant & Distribution (160 employees, TCR 12.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

UNC - Rochester Plant & Distribution has more employees than the Dairy median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2021	13.3	12.6	21	0
2020	11.3	9.4	18	0
2019	12.3	11.1	18	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · NY · Rochester

457 Dairy employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 956 employers in Rochester, NY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Hastings Co-op Creamery	HASTINGS, MN	12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc.-Peoria	PEORIA, IL	12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Lochmead Dairy INC	JUNCTION CITY, OR	12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Southeast Milk, Inc Ultra Filtration Plant	BACONTON, GA	12.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Island Pump and Tank	EAST NORTHPORT	160 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Wenner Bakery -Bayport Facility	BAYPORT	160 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Kariout LLC - Scotia	SCOTIA	160 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Calverton	MEDFORD	160 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Division 50 University of Rochester	Rochester	13,244 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Rochester General Hospital	Rochester	7,833 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Division 40 University of Rochester	Rochester	4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Unity Hospital	Rochester	3,158 FTE
NAT-TCR	St. Augustine Alligator Farm, Inc	Saint Augustine, FL	12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	City of Cheboygan-Department of Public Safety	Cheboygan, MI	12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Exact Packaging	Pontiac, IL	12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Palisade	Garretson, SD	12.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Curtis 1000 Inc. - 0223-GADU1	Duluth, GA	160 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Km-Km-Kings Mountain	Kings Mountain, NC	160 FTE
NAT-SIZE	PERI Elkridge	Elkridge, MD	160 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Parks, Recreation and Tourism	Chesapeake, VA	160 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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