Cottage cheese manufacturing · Washington

Darigold

Issaquah, WA · ~101 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darigold runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cottage cheese manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Darigold: 6.4 TCR = 193% of Cottage cheese manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darigold safety composite

Darigold scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−1.5

2019→2024

Darigold injury rate improved

Darigold's TCR fell 1.5 from 6.8 in 2019 to 5.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.8 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=9.1 · 2024=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311511 · Issaquah, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 193% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #3/8
  • PHOTO Garelick MA - Franklin
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Garelick MA - Franklin (0.0 TCR gap)

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Darigold in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darigold averages 6.4 TCR (193% of the Cottage cheese manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Darigold TCR series: 2019=6.8 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=9.1 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Darigold falls in its industry

457 Cottage cheese manufacturing establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 8 Cottage cheese manufacturing employers in Washington.

Darigold (101 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Darigold
Darigold (101 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Darigold has fewer employees than the Cottage cheese manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 5.3 5.3 5 0 0
2023 9.1 5.4 10 0 0
2022 4.3 1.7 5 0 0
2019 6.8 5.1 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · WA · Issaquah

457 Cottage cheese manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 76 employers in Issaquah, 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 Garelick MA - Franklin 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2453-00060351-60351H 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kemps Dairy Maid - Frederick 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2453-00060351-60351M 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lennar - Portland 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wilcox Construction LLC 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donald B Murphy Contractors, Inc 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Purcell Systems 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000225 1,289 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastpointe 1,185 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHS, Issaquah Campus 882 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0110 - ISSAQUAH WA WHSE 473 FTE
NAT-TCR Sturm, Ruger & Co. 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Louis Branch 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Freedom Financial Network Food 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty Aguadilla 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wayne NJ 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nesbitt Contracting Co., Inc. 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Swagelok OSM 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Construction 101 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, 2019. 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.