Coffee roasting · Vermont

Vermont Coffee

Middlebury, VT · ~30 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vermont Coffee runs at 186% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Coffee roasting workplace, earning a grade D.

Vermont Coffee: 7.6 TCR = 186% of Coffee roasting BLS 4.1 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vermont Coffee safety composite

Vermont Coffee scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Vermont Coffee: 4.0 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 12.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2024

Vermont Coffee's TCR rose 5.6 from 4.0 in 2017 to 9.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311920 · Middlebury, VT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.6 · 186% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Cadillac Coffee Co. …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cadillac Coffee Co. Manufacturing & Corporate Office & Distribution (0.2 TCR gap)

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Vermont Coffee in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vermont Coffee averages 7.6 TCR (186% of the Coffee roasting BLS benchmark).

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

Vermont Coffee TCR series: 2017=4 · 2018=4 · 2019=7.6 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=10.6 · 2022=8.6 · 2023=12.9 · 2024=9.5 · BLS 4.1

Where Vermont Coffee falls in its industry

169 Coffee roasting establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Vermont alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Coffee roasting employers in Vermont.

Vermont Coffee (30 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Vermont Coffee
Vermont Coffee (30 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Vermont Coffee has fewer employees than the Coffee roasting median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 9.5 4.8 2 0 0
2023 12.9 4.3 3 0 0
2022 8.6 8.6 1 1 0
2021 10.6 0.0 1 1 0
2020 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2019 7.6 3.8 2 0 0
2018 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2017 4.0 4.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311920 · VT · Middlebury

169 Coffee roasting 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 Cadillac Coffee Co. Manufacturing & Corporate Office & Distribution 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kohana Coffee 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Houma Sales Location 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR New England Coffee 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE General Contracting 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belden Construction LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORTH HERO-GRAND ISLE DRAWBRID 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Overhead Door Company of Burlington #348 30 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 5690 - Boston East 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Carlyle Health Care Center Ltd. Co. d/b/a The Carlyle at Stonebridge Park 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR A. Martini & Co., Inc. 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Piepel Premium Fruit Company LLC 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Punch Studio, LLC - Figueroa Warehouse 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wyoming, MI - Burlingame Avenue 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aurora, CO - E. 36th Drive 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Taunton, MA - 450 Revolutionary Drive 30 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.