Cheese merchant wholesalers · Ohio

Great Lakes Cheese

Hiram, OH · ~803 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lakes Cheese runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Great Lakes Cheese: 2.7 TCR = 121% of Cheese merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Cheese safety composite

Great Lakes Cheese scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

−0.4

2016→2024

Great Lakes Cheese injury rate improved

Great Lakes Cheese's TCR fell 0.4 from 3.4 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.4 · 2017=2.4 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=1.7 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424430 · Hiram, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.7 · 121% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #4/11
  • PHOTO DFA DISTRIBUTING WES…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 171 inj
  • SIZE ~803 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DFA DISTRIBUTING WEST - GRAND JUNCTION CO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Cheese in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Lakes Cheese averages 2.7 TCR (121% 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 TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=2.4 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=1.7 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=3 · BLS 2.2

Where Great Lakes Cheese falls in its industry

231 Cheese merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

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

Great Lakes Cheese (803 employees, TCR 2.7) 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
Great Lakes Cheese (803 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Great Lakes Cheese 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 3.0 2.6 32 1 0
2023 2.5 1.8 24 1 0
2022 3.7 3.2 35 1 0
2021 2.9 2.3 25 0 0
2019 1.7 0.7 8 6 0
2018 1.6 1.2 12 0 0
2017 2.4 1.6 14 3 0
2016 3.4 2.4 21 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424430 · OH · Hiram

231 Cheese merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 7 employers in Hiram, OH · 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 - GRAND JUNCTION CO 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Suiza - Winston-Salem 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Truvant Boscobel North 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle Direct Store Delivery - Bay Area 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Superior Group 802 FTE
STATE-SIZE OHHPADM02 804 FTE
STATE-SIZE New River Electrical Corp - Granville 805 FTE
STATE-SIZE Office 800 FTE
CITY-NEAR Luxium Solutions - Hiram 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint-Gobain Crystals- Hiram 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duramax Marine LLC 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR GLC Transportation, Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-TCR Hydro North Liberty 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Jet Provisions, Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Canfield Plumbing & Heating 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Red Star Yeast Company 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE EFCO 803 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6935-Parks-Park and Rec 803 FTE
NAT-SIZE Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center 803 FTE
NAT-SIZE Landoll Corporation 803 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, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.