Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Idaho

Agropur Inc. - Jerome Cheese Co

Name: Agropur Inc. - Jerome Cheese Co Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Jerome, ID · ~373 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.8
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Agropur Inc. - Jerome Cheese Co runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Agropur Inc. - Jerome Cheese Co: 2.8 TCR = 83% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Agropur Inc. - Jerome Cheese Co safety composite

Agropur Inc. - Jerome Cheese Co scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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

Agropur Inc. - Jerome Cheese Co: 1.5 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2021

Agropur Inc. - Jerome Cheese Co's TCR rose 2.4 from 1.5 in 2019 to 3.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Jerome, ID AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 83% of ind

DART 1.4 DART
RANK #5/15
PHOTO Plymouth
BOOK 3y book
INJ 35 inj
SIZE ~373 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plymouth (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.8
Plymouth

2.8
Schreiber Food

2.8
Leprino Foods

2.8
Kraft Heinz Fo

2.7

What this shows Agropur Inc. - Jerome Cheese Co averages 2.8 TCR (83% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Agropur Inc. - Jerome Cheese Co TCR series: 2019=1.5 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Agropur Inc. - Jerome Cheese Co falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Idaho alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 15 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Idaho.

Agropur Inc. - Jerome Cheese Co (373 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Agropur Inc. - Jerome Cheese Co has more employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu median and a lower 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
2021	3.9	1.4	17
2020	2.9	1.7	12
2019	1.5	0.8	6

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · ID · Jerome

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,774 rated employers in Idaho with headcount on file · 53 employers in Jerome, ID · 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	Plymouth	PLYMOUTH, WI	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Schreiber Foods	WEST BEND, WI	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Leprino Foods Lemoore East	LEMOORE, CA	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kraft Heinz Foods Company - Lowville, NY	LOWVILLE, NY	2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Woodgrain Millwork-Fruitland	FRUITLAND	374 FTE
STATE-SIZE	JR Simplot Company-Don Plant	POCATELLO	374 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 2862	MERIDIAN	372 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Boise-GO #000	BOISE	374 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Agropur Jerome	Jerome	411 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Jerome Cheese Co	Jerome	359 FTE
CITY-NEAR	True West Beef, LLC	Jerome	354 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Spears Manufacturing	Jerome	305 FTE
NAT-TCR	Louisiana Extended Care Hospital of Lafayette	Lafayette, LA	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	49491c - Vista Sales	Vista, CA	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Harlan Electric Main office	Nashville, TN	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Windlands - South	Nashville, TN	2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	USA Tulsa 4500 S 129th E Ave	Tulsa, OK	373 FTE
NAT-SIZE	FC	Austin, TX	373 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Gaubert Oil Company, Inc.	Thibodaux, LA	373 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Salinas - 04	Salinas, CA	373 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.