Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Idaho

Glanbia Gooding Cheese and Whey Plant

Gooding, ID · ~301 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Glanbia Gooding Cheese and Whey Plant runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Glanbia Gooding Cheese and Whey Plant: 4.1 TCR = 124% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Glanbia Gooding Cheese and Whey Plant safety composite

Glanbia Gooding Cheese and Whey Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

Glanbia Gooding Cheese and Whey Plant held a steady TCR band

Glanbia Gooding Cheese and Whey Plant's TCR held near 0.3 from 4.0 in 2023 to 4.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.0 · 2024=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Gooding, ID ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 124% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #11/15
  • PHOTO Foodservice Northlan…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~301 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Foodservice Northland Cheese - 1036 (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Idaho employers → · Look up another →

Glanbia Gooding Cheese and Whey Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Glanbia Gooding Cheese and Whey Plant averages 4.1 TCR (124% 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

Glanbia Gooding Cheese and Whey Plant TCR series: 2023=4 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Glanbia Gooding Cheese and Whey Plant falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Idaho alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 15 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Idaho.

Glanbia Gooding Cheese and Whey Plant (301 employees, TCR 4.1) 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 Glanbia Gooding Cheese and Whey Plant
Glanbia Gooding Cheese and Whey Plant (301 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Glanbia Gooding Cheese and Whey Plant 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 4.2 2.6 12 1 0
2023 4.0 3.3 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · ID · Gooding

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,774 rated employers in Idaho with headcount on file · 11 employers in Gooding, ID · 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 Foodservice Northland Cheese - 1036 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lyrical Foods Inc. Dba Kite Hill -Hayward 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Middlebury Cheese Company 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Land O'Lakes Kiel Dairy Foods 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2485 301 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2861 303 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spears Manufacturing 305 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1900 297 FTE
CITY-NEAR Glanbia Gooding Cheese Plant 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Canyon Medical Center 178 FTE
CITY-NEAR Glanbia Gooding Whey Plant 134 FTE
CITY-NEAR Glanbia Gooding Transportation 130 FTE
NAT-TCR Lakes Gas Co 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Saertex USA, LLC 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hiddenite 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR FreshEdge, LLC 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Solari Enterprises Inc 301 FTE
NAT-SIZE Antaya Technologies, LLC 301 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sholom Home East Inc. 301 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chamberlin Houston LLC 301 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.