Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Washington

Dairygold Inc

Sunnyside, WA · ~225 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dairygold Inc runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Dairygold Inc: 4.0 TCR = 122% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dairygold Inc safety composite

Dairygold Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

−3.4

2023→2024

Dairygold Inc injury rate improved

Dairygold Inc's TCR fell 3.4 from 5.7 in 2023 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.7 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Sunnyside, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 122% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK P61
  • PHOTO Agropur - Weyauwega
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~225 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Agropur - Weyauwega (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dairygold Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dairygold Inc averages 4.0 TCR (122% 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

Dairygold Inc TCR series: 2023=5.7 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Dairygold Inc falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Dairygold Inc (225 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Dairygold Inc
Dairygold Inc (225 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Dairygold Inc 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
2024 2.3 1.6 6 0 0
2023 5.7 4.3 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WA · Sunnyside

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 43 employers in Sunnyside, WA · 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 Agropur - Weyauwega 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glanbia Blackfoot Cheese Plant 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lyrical Foods Inc. Dba Kite Hill -Hayward 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Middlebury Cheese Company 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE CECO Concrete : Seattle 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE NIC Global-Corporate Headquarters 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2594 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DWA6 225 FTE
CITY-NEAR Astria Sunnyside Hospital 573 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2241 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2241 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sunsteel LLC 187 FTE
NAT-TCR Fox Factory 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Industries 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Oahu 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rifenburg North Carolina, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Edgen Murray Corporation 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE London Facility 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6120 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Library Department 225 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. 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.