Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Ohio

Biery Cheese Company Louisville

Louisville, OH · ~484 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Biery Cheese Company Louisville runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Biery Cheese Company Louisville: 3.6 TCR = 110% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Biery Cheese Company Louisville safety composite

Biery Cheese Company Louisville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

Biery Cheese Company Louisville: 1.4 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2022

Biery Cheese Company Louisville's TCR rose 2.5 from 1.4 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Louisville, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 110% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #2/9
  • PHOTO Foremost Farms - App…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 117 inj
  • SIZE ~484 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Foremost Farms - Appleton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Biery Cheese Company Louisville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Biery Cheese Company Louisville averages 3.6 TCR (110% 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

Biery Cheese Company Louisville TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=3 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Biery Cheese Company Louisville falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 9 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Ohio.

Biery Cheese Company Louisville (484 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 Biery Cheese Company Louisville
Biery Cheese Company Louisville (484 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Biery Cheese Company Louisville 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
2022 3.9 3.5 17 0 0
2021 4.5 4.3 23 0 0
2020 4.1 3.7 21 0 0
2019 4.9 3.9 19 1 0
2018 3.5 3.5 14 0 0
2017 3.0 2.9 15 0 0
2016 1.4 1.4 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · OH · Louisville

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 29 employers in Louisville, OH · 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 Foremost Farms - Appleton 3.6 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 PAC Worldwide - Middletown OH 483 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lima Plant 485 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wilmington 483 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avita Health System Ontario Location 485 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main St. 321 FTE
CITY-NEAR Todd's Enviroscapes, Inc 187 FTE
CITY-NEAR Green Meadows 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Giant Eagle #1611 126 FTE
NAT-TCR BWI - Mechanicsburg 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Conway Plant 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Select Genetics MO White Oak 006-0138-WG, WH, WT 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Legend of McKinney 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Culberson Construction, LLC 484 FTE
NAT-SIZE International Paper Orange Mill 484 FTE
NAT-SIZE Velux Greenwood LLC 484 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZCRL 484 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.