Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Idaho

Agropur Jerome

Jerome, ID · ~411 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Agropur Jerome runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Agropur Jerome: 3.7 TCR = 112% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Agropur Jerome safety composite

Agropur Jerome scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2022→2023

Agropur Jerome injury rate improved

Agropur Jerome's TCR fell 0.8 from 4.1 in 2022 to 3.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.1 · 2023=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Jerome, ID ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 112% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #9/15
  • PHOTO Agropur Inc. - Le Su…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~411 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur Cheese (0.0 TCR gap)

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Agropur Jerome in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Agropur Jerome averages 3.7 TCR (112% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Agropur Jerome TCR series: 2022=4.1 · 2023=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Agropur Jerome falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Idaho alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 15 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Idaho.

Agropur Jerome (411 employees, TCR 3.7) 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 Agropur Jerome
Agropur Jerome (411 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Agropur Jerome 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2023 3.3 1.5 17 0 0
2022 4.1 2.5 18 0 0

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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur Cheese 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bel Brands USA 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR BREWSTER CHEESE COMPANY 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rizo Lopez Foods Inc. 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 5841 411 FTE
STATE-SIZE Track 410 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwest Cosmetics 409 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 3511 409 FTE
CITY-NEAR Agropur Inc. - Jerome Cheese Co 373 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jerome Cheese Co 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR True West Beef, LLC 354 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spears Manufacturing 305 FTE
NAT-TCR BSN Sports LLC McClellan Park 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Indiana University Health Riley Hospital for Children 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Core Concepts, Inc 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 2917 Bluefield Distrib Center (Va) 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Garden Spot Village 411 FTE
NAT-SIZE KS Energy Services (New Berlin) 411 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quincy Wa 411 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charles T. Sitrin Health Care Center 411 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.