Cheese merchant wholesalers · Tennessee

Great Lakes Cheese of Tennessee, Inc.

Manchester, TN · ~361 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lakes Cheese of Tennessee, Inc. runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Great Lakes Cheese of Tennessee, Inc.: 3.0 TCR = 135% of Cheese merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Cheese of Tennessee, Inc. safety composite

Great Lakes Cheese of Tennessee, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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 of Tennessee, Inc.: 1.0 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2021

Great Lakes Cheese of Tennessee, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.9 from 1.0 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424430 · Manchester, TN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.0 · 135% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #4/11
  • PHOTO DFA DISTRIBUTING WES…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 60 inj
  • SIZE ~361 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DFA DISTRIBUTING WEST - CITY OF INDUSTRY CA-SOUTH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Cheese of Tennessee, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Lakes Cheese of Tennessee, Inc. averages 3.0 TCR (135% 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 of Tennessee, Inc. TCR series: 2016=1 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=3.3 · 2021=3.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Great Lakes Cheese of Tennessee, Inc. falls in its industry

231 Cheese merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 11 Cheese merchant wholesalers employers in Tennessee.

Great Lakes Cheese of Tennessee, Inc. (361 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 of Tennessee, Inc.
Great Lakes Cheese of Tennessee, Inc. (361 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Great Lakes Cheese of Tennessee, Inc. 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
2021 3.9 2.6 18 0 0
2019 3.3 3.0 14 0 0
2018 3.8 2.3 15 0 0
2017 2.8 2.8 10 0 0
2016 1.0 0.7 3 0 0

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 Metric
NAICS-TCR DFA DISTRIBUTING WEST - CITY OF INDUSTRY CA-SOUTH 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bowling Green Branch 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meadow Gold Grand Junction - Grand Junction 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR South-Hiland Dairy 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE SRG Global, Inc. Ripley 361 FTE
STATE-SIZE 671 361 FTE
STATE-SIZE MEMPHIS TERMINAL 361 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tristar Northcrest Medical Center 361 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manchester / Smyrna 971 FTE
CITY-NEAR Viam Manufacturing, Inc. 523 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc. - Manchester 475 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manchester Mfg. Plant 356 FTE
NAT-TCR Wesco Aircraft - Ave Scott 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR JK Moving & Storage of Maryland 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR V&S Midwest Carriers Corp. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Essendant: Tampa FE 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (213-H3C) 361 FTE
NAT-SIZE Millennium Mat- 910 361 FTE
NAT-SIZE Missouri Star Quilt Company 361 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1124 - Wheaton Md Whse 361 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: 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.