Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Kentucky

Bel US/ Cheese MFG: Leitchfield KY

Name: Bel US/ Cheese MFG: Leitchfield KY Workplace Safety Data
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Leitchfield, KY · ~272 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Bel US/ Cheese MFG: Leitchfield KY runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Bel US/ Cheese MFG: Leitchfield KY: 1.5 TCR = 46% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bel US/ Cheese MFG: Leitchfield KY safety composite

Bel US/ Cheese MFG: Leitchfield KY scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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).

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers
DART rate: B 1.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

Bel US/ Cheese MFG: Leitchfield KY held a steady TCR band

Bel US/ Cheese MFG: Leitchfield KY's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.5 in 2019 to 1.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=1.5 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Leitchfield, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 46% of ind

DART 1.1 DART
RANK P93
PHOTO Sierra Nevada Cheese…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 12 inj
SIZE ~272 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sierra Nevada Cheese Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.6
MDF Food LLC

1.6
This site

1.5
Sierra Nevada

1.5
Mi Semago Corp

1.5

What this shows Bel US/ Cheese MFG: Leitchfield KY averages 1.5 TCR (46% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Bel US/ Cheese MFG: Leitchfield KY TCR series: 2019=1.5 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Bel US/ Cheese MFG: Leitchfield KY falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Bel US/ Cheese MFG: Leitchfield KY (272 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Bel US/ Cheese MFG: Leitchfield KY 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
2021	1.4	1.1	4	0
2020	1.6	1.0	5	0
2019	1.5	0.6	3	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · KY · Leitchfield

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 31 employers in Leitchfield, KY · 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	Sierra Nevada Cheese Company	WILLOWS, CA	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Litehouse Dairy Facility	KOOTENAI, ID	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	MDF Food LLC	NEWTON, IA	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Mi Semago Corporation	PATERSON, NJ	1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Ready Electric Company Inc.	LOUISVILLE	272 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Winchester Spring	WINCHESTER	272 FTE
STATE-SIZE	KY-LOUISVILLE	LOUISVILLE	272 FTE
STATE-SIZE	OUTERLOOP HEALTHCARE FACILITY (KYVLL)	LOUISVILLE	272 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Plastikon Industries	Leitchfield	504 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Hospital	Leitchfield	407 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 445	Leitchfield	372 FTE
CITY-NEAR	445	Leitchfield	367 FTE
NAT-TCR	Valley Medical and Wellness	Burnsville, MN	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Tpc Wire and Cable Corp	Macedonia, OH	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Diakon - Ohesson M	Lewistown, PA	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Buffalo Milk-Bone	Buffalo, NY	1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Limbach - Mid-Atlantic	Laurel, MD	272 FTE
NAT-SIZE	D&D Distributors, LLLP	Maryland Heights, MO	272 FTE
NAT-SIZE	GO-PH-HEADQUARTERS	Houston, TX	272 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Sensor Systems	East Syracuse, NY	272 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.