Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Michigan

Cass City, MI

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Cass City, MI · ~32 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Cass City, MI runs at 69% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Cass City, MI: 2.3 TCR = 69% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cass City, MI safety composite

Cass City, MI scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% 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).

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers
DART rate: A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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

Cass City, MI: 2.8 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Cass City, MI's TCR rose 0.7 from 2.8 in 2017 to 3.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Cass City, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 69% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #4/8
PHOTO Leprino Foods Greeley
BOOK 4y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Leprino Foods Greeley (0.0 TCR gap)

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Schreiber Food

2.4
This site

2.3
Leprino Foods

2.3
Adrian, MI

2.3
Kraft Heinz Fo

2.3

What this shows Cass City, MI averages 2.3 TCR (69% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Cass City, MI TCR series: 2017=2.8 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Cass City, MI falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Michigan.

Cass City, MI (32 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Cass City, MI has fewer 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	3.5	0.0	1
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	2.9	0.0	1
2017	2.8	2.8	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · MI · Cass City

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 16 employers in Cass City, MI · 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	Leprino Foods Greeley	GREELEY, CO	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Adrian, MI	ADRIAN, MI	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kraft Heinz Foods Company	WAUSAU, WI	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Schreiber Foods, Inc.	SMITHFIELD, UT	2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	6801_15743	KALAMAZOO	32 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Black Soil Dairy	GRAND RAPIDS	32 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Berrybrook	DOWAGAIC	32 FTE
STATE-SIZE	East Tawas	EAST TAWAS	32 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Kappen Tree Service, LLC	Cass City	377 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Walbro LLC	Cass City	329 FTE
CITY-NEAR	North Area Energy Center	Cass City	80 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MICSC - CASS CITY CENTER	Cass City	74 FTE
NAT-TCR	ADESA Boise	Boise, ID	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Inpro Seal	Rock Island, IL	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Barnard Construction Company Inc	Humble, TX	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Jewell Tool Technology	Davenport, IA	2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Rubber-Inc.	Chicago, IL	32 FTE
NAT-SIZE	NRP-IN	Montpelier, IN	32 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Original Mattress Factory	Raleigh, NC	32 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Revlis - Norton	Norton, OH	32 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, 2017. 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.