Cooking utensils, fabricated metal, manufacturing · New York

Utica Cutlery Company

Utica, NY · ~37 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Utica Cutlery Company runs at 215% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cooking utensils, fabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Utica Cutlery Company: 7.1 TCR = 215% of Cooking utensils, fabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Utica Cutlery Company safety composite

Utica Cutlery Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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%).

TCR Δ

−12.8

2018→2024

Utica Cutlery Company injury rate improved

Utica Cutlery Company's TCR fell 12.8 from 12.8 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=12.8 · 2019=13.3 · 2020=3.0 · 2021=13.5 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332215 · Utica, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 215% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Ontario Knife Comapny
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ontario Knife Comapny (0.1 TCR gap)

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Utica Cutlery Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Utica Cutlery Company averages 7.1 TCR (215% of the Cooking utensils, fabricated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Utica Cutlery Company TCR series: 2018=12.8 · 2019=13.3 · 2020=3 · 2021=13.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Utica Cutlery Company falls in its industry

52 Cooking utensils, fabricated m establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Cooking utensils, fabricated m employers in New York.

Utica Cutlery Company (37 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Utica Cutlery Company
Utica Cutlery Company (37 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.4

Utica Cutlery Company has fewer employees than the Cooking utensils, fabricated metal, manu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 13.5 10.8 5 0 0
2020 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2019 13.3 7.6 7 0 0
2018 12.8 9.6 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332215 · NY · Utica

52 Cooking utensils, fabricated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 148 employers in Utica, 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 Ontario Knife Comapny 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Americraft Cookware LLC 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smoky Mountain Knife Works, Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cutco Corporation 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kludt Brothers Inc. 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE PharmaCann Hamptonburgh 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cruikshank Farms LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main farm 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Resource Center for Independent Living 3,351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Faxton St. Lukes 1,727 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Elizabeth Medical Center 1,324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Utica University 915 FTE
NAT-TCR River Bend Hospital 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TXH071 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR O'Connell Landscape Maintenance 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pa-Ted Spring Company LLC 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Visumatic Industrial Products 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arnold Defense & Electronics 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE John H. Best 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE C462 Bryson City 37 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.