Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · California

Central Valley Cheese

Turlock, CA · ~138 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Valley Cheese runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Central Valley Cheese: 6.1 TCR = 184% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Valley Cheese safety composite

Central Valley Cheese scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−6.2

2021→2024

Central Valley Cheese injury rate improved

Central Valley Cheese's TCR fell 6.2 from 8.3 in 2021 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=8.3 · 2022=9.0 · 2023=5.0 · 2024=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Turlock, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 184% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #22/36
  • PHOTO Manufacturing : Kiel
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~138 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Manufacturing : Kiel (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Valley Cheese in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Valley Cheese averages 6.1 TCR (184% 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

Central Valley Cheese TCR series: 2021=8.3 · 2022=9 · 2023=5 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Central Valley Cheese falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 36 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in California.

Central Valley Cheese (138 employees, TCR 6.1) 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 Central Valley Cheese
Central Valley Cheese (138 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Central Valley Cheese has more employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu median and a higher 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
2024 2.1 2.1 3 0 0
2023 5.0 3.6 7 0 0
2022 9.0 8.2 12 0 0
2021 8.3 8.3 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · CA · Turlock

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 171 employers in Turlock, CA · 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 Manufacturing : Kiel 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nasonville Dairy Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mullins Cheese INC #1 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bongards Creameries South 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Westerlay Orchids LP 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danell Custom Harvesting LLC - DCH629 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sustainable Labor Solutions, Inc 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE RLH Fire Protection 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-027 1,079 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-209 911 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MCE1 897 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 349 779 FTE
NAT-TCR Signet Shipbuilding & Repair 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Country Club of Detroit 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 307 Providence 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Tire & Rubber Corp. 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE West Fraser Inc 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE 300000437836005 - TX-Fort Worth-Intermodal Office 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frankfort Traffic Center 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Cleveland 138 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.