Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · California

Cypress Grove Cheese

Arcata, CA · ~73 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cypress Grove Cheese runs at 294% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Cypress Grove Cheese: 9.7 TCR = 294% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cypress Grove Cheese safety composite

Cypress Grove Cheese scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

−5.9

2022→2024

Cypress Grove Cheese injury rate improved

Cypress Grove Cheese's TCR fell 5.9 from 12.2 in 2022 to 6.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 12.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=12.2 · 2023=10.6 · 2024=6.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Arcata, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 294% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #34/36
  • PHOTO Langes Corners
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Langes Corners (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cypress Grove Cheese in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cypress Grove Cheese averages 9.7 TCR (294% 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

Cypress Grove Cheese TCR series: 2022=12.2 · 2023=10.6 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Cypress Grove Cheese falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #34 safest of 36 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in California.

Cypress Grove Cheese (73 employees, TCR 9.7) 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 Cypress Grove Cheese
Cypress Grove Cheese (73 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Cypress Grove Cheese has fewer 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 6.3 4.7 4 0 0
2023 10.6 9.1 7 0 0
2022 12.2 12.2 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · CA · Arcata

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 41 employers in Arcata, 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 Langes Corners 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sartori Cheese 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sartori Whey Converting 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gardena Distribution Center 9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Columbia 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Location 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE P-R Farms Inc/Palomate Inc 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 52 1,571 FTE
CITY-NEAR Murphy's Markets Inc. 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kokatat, Inc. 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Coast Co-op Arcata 124 FTE
NAT-TCR Courtyard Crabtree Valley 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DBO9 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Tampa Bay Area Logistics, LLC 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mediacom's Huntsville, AL 9.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pioneer Frozen Foods 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farm and Fleet of Geneseo 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Florikan ESA LLC 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Recovery Village Atlanta 73 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. 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.