Cheese merchant wholesalers · Texas

Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene

Abilene, TX · ~171 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene: 4.2 TCR = 192% of Cheese merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene safety composite

Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

−0.8

2022→2024

Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene injury rate improved

Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene's TCR fell 0.8 from 4.9 in 2022 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.9 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424430 · Abilene, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 192% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #9/23
  • PHOTO Truvant Boscobel South
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~171 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Truvant Boscobel South (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene averages 4.2 TCR (192% of the Cheese merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene TCR series: 2022=4.9 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene falls in its industry

231 Cheese merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 23 Cheese merchant wholesalers employers in Texas.

Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene (171 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene
Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene (171 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Great Lakes Cheese - Abilene has more employees than the Cheese merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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 4.1 3.8 13 0 0
2023 3.7 2.8 8 0 0
2022 4.9 4.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424430 · TX · Abilene

231 Cheese merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 238 employers in Abilene, TX · 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 Truvant Boscobel South 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFA DISTRIBUTING WEST - LAS VEGAS NV 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFA DISTRIBUTING NORTH - ELWOOD IN 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meadow Gold Hawaii - Kahului 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE AUSTIN TX SC 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Balfour Beatty NEWPPP 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weisinger Incorporated 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Exxon Beaumont 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR HENDRICK MEDICAL CENTER 3,025 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hendrick Medical Center South 777 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lauren Engineers & Constructors, Inc. 588 FTE
CITY-NEAR Abilene CCD 573 FTE
NAT-TCR Polk Medical Center, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Renaissance Marquis 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Oficina Administrativa 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR OJ Insulation 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alma Nelson Manor 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Asphalt Paving 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beverage Air Corporation 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marriott Hartford Downtown 171 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.