Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing · Vermont

Vermont Creamery

Websterville, VT · ~125 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vermont Creamery runs at 286% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Vermont Creamery: 9.4 TCR = 286% of Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vermont Creamery safety composite

Vermont Creamery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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 9.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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 Creamery: 10.4 → 11.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2024

Vermont Creamery's TCR rose 1.0 from 10.4 in 2020 to 11.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Websterville, VT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 286% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Saputo Cheese
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~125 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Saputo Cheese (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vermont Creamery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vermont Creamery averages 9.4 TCR (286% of the Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vermont Creamery TCR series: 2020=10.4 · 2021=9.9 · 2022=9.1 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=11.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Vermont Creamery falls in its industry

377 Cheese, natural (except cottag establishments

Safer than 14% 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 Cheese, natural (except cottag employers in Vermont.

Vermont Creamery (125 employees, TCR 9.4) 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 Vermont Creamery
Vermont Creamery (125 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Vermont Creamery has fewer employees than the Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), 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 11.4 8.6 12 0 0
2023 6.3 5.4 7 0 0
2022 9.1 9.1 12 0 0
2021 9.9 9.2 13 0 0
2020 10.4 5.2 13 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · VT · Websterville

377 Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 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 Saputo Cheese 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR White Hill 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Almena 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BelGioioso Cheese - Chase I 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Velan - Williston 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE King Arthur Baking Co., Inc. - Gen Warehouse & Storage (Avalon) 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Mountain Behavior Consulting, Inc. 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Town of Essex 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR Town of Barre 141 FTE
NAT-TCR EL-VI Farms,LLC 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Commons 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Benton County Public Works 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Siskiyou Forest Products 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Moneysworth Linen Services 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southtown Dodge Inc 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3014 Cash Wise Owatonna 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3020 Cash Wise Bismarck 125 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. 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.