Cider, alcoholic, manufacturing · Vermont

Vermont Cider Company

Middlebury, VT · ~59 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vermont Cider Company runs at 367% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cider, alcoholic, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Vermont Cider Company: 12.1 TCR = 367% of Cider, alcoholic, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vermont Cider Company safety composite

Vermont Cider Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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).

F

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Vermont Cider Company: 10.0 → 16.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 16.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2023

Vermont Cider Company's TCR rose 6.5 from 10.0 in 2018 to 16.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312130 · Middlebury, VT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.1 · 367% of ind

  • DART 9.0 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Wine by Joe, LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wine by Joe, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vermont Cider Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vermont Cider Company averages 12.1 TCR (367% of the Cider, alcoholic, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vermont Cider Company TCR series: 2018=10 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=12.1 · 2021=15.6 · 2023=16.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Vermont Cider Company falls in its industry

309 Cider, alcoholic, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Vermont alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Cider, alcoholic, manufacturin employers in Vermont.

Vermont Cider Company (59 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Vermont Cider Company
Vermont Cider Company (59 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Vermont Cider Company has more employees than the Cider, alcoholic, manufacturing 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
2023 16.4 9.0 10 1 0
2021 15.6 13.4 7 0 0
2020 12.1 7.3 5 0 0
2019 6.4 2.1 3 0 0
2018 10.0 6.0 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312130 · VT · Middlebury

309 Cider, alcoholic, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 24 employers in Middlebury, VT · 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 Wine by Joe, LLC 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ste. Michelle Ag. - Vineyard 8 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eric Trump Wine Manufacturing 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR G3 Enterprises, Inc. - Bottling Services 12.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE N.A. Manosh, Inc. 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Albans Cooperative Creamery 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buttura and Sons Inc 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAI-0033-0033-02536 FAC-02536-VERGENNES-VT 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Counseling Service of Addison County, Inc. 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08121 - Store # 8121 Middlebury 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8121 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR Agri-Mark, Inc. 121 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1248 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR SolvIt Inc 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0017-0016-00925 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02142 12.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Parkway Health Care Center 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stepstone, Inc 2 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Woodlands Health & Rehab Center 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE JJ Ferguson Sand & Gravel 59 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: 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.