Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Ohio

Brewster, Ohio

Brewster, OH · ~207 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brewster, Ohio runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Brewster, Ohio: 4.2 TCR = 126% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brewster, Ohio safety composite

Brewster, Ohio scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

−2.0

2016→2019

Brewster, Ohio injury rate improved

Brewster, Ohio's TCR fell 2.0 from 5.5 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.5 · 2017=5.0 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 126% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #3/9
  • PHOTO Fiscalini Cheese Com…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~207 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fiscalini Cheese Company, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Brewster, Ohio in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brewster, Ohio averages 4.2 TCR (126% 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

Brewster, Ohio TCR series: 2016=5.5 · 2017=5 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Brewster, Ohio falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 59% 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 #3 safest of 9 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Ohio.

Brewster, Ohio (207 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 Brewster, Ohio
Brewster, Ohio (207 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Brewster, Ohio 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
2019 3.5 1.7 8 0 0
2018 2.8 2.3 6 0 0
2017 5.0 3.0 10 0 0
2016 5.5 2.0 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · OH · Brewster

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 4 employers in Brewster, 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 Fiscalini Cheese Company, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Land O'Lakes Kiel Dairy Foods 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR BelGioioso Cheese - Freedom 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Lakes Cheese, Seymour, Inc. 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Prus Construction Company 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Air Force One, Inc. (Companywide) 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Delphos 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE K051-M001 207 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shearer's Foods - Brewster 336 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shearer's Foods - BRW 325 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brewster Parke 118 FTE
NAT-TCR JR Simplot Company-SGS Edison 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 91 - Waukesha 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 234 - Topeka 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0045 8111 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Windsor Health and Rehabilitation Center 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE RADIAS Health 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boardman Foods Incorporated 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE 01 - Chicago 207 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.