Cheese merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc. - Manchester

Name: Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc. - Manchester Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Manchester, TN · ~475 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.1
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc. - Manchester runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc. - Manchester: 2.1 TCR = 98% of Cheese merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc. - Manchester safety composite

Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc. - Manchester scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% 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).

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc. - Manchester: 1.4 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.54× in 2024

Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc. - Manchester's TCR rose 0.5 from 1.4 in 2022 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424430 · Manchester, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.1 · 98% of ind

DART 1.2 DART
RANK #3/11
PHOTO US SF New England 564
BOOK 3y book
INJ 32 inj
SIZE ~475 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US SF New England 564 (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc. - Manchester averages 2.1 TCR (98% of the Cheese merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc. - Manchester TCR series: 2022=1.4 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc. - Manchester falls in its industry

231 Cheese merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 11 Cheese merchant wholesalers employers in Tennessee.

Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc. - Manchester (475 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc. - Manchester 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
2024	1.9	1.2	10
2023	3.1	2.3	15
2022	1.4	0.6	7

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424430 · TN · Manchester

231 Cheese merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 43 employers in Manchester, TN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	US SF New England 564	TAUNTON, MA	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Mayfield - Kingsport	KINGSPORT, TN	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Oak Farms San Antonio - Mcallen	MCALLEN, TX	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	FDD SOCAL South - San Diego - DTI	SAN DIEGO, CA	2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Molecular Imaging - Knoxville Facility	KNOXVILLE	475 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Flowers Bakery of Crossville, LLC.	CROSSVILLE	476 FTE
STATE-SIZE	35370 - PULASKI PLANT	PULASKI	474 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Havco Wood Products, LLC.	VONORE	476 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Manchester / Smyrna	Manchester	971 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Viam Manufacturing, Inc.	Manchester	523 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Great Lakes Cheese of Tennessee, Inc.	Manchester	361 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Manchester Mfg. Plant	Manchester	356 FTE
NAT-TCR	Monet Construction Inc	Tujunga, CA	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	GEA Process Engineering Inc.	Hudson, WI	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Elf's Landscaping, Inc	Gonic, NH	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	CCSF, ADM, Office of the City Administrator	San Francisco, CA	2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Junction City Packaging	Junction City, KS	475 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Valley Community Services	Mt. Pleasant, PA	475 FTE
NAT-SIZE	WR Grace & Co	Baltimore, MD	475 FTE
NAT-SIZE	B82 - Inco	Lithia Springs, GA	475 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.