Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Missouri

Heartland Creamery

Newark, MO · ~42 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heartland Creamery runs at 622% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Heartland Creamery: 20.5 TCR = 622% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heartland Creamery safety composite

Heartland Creamery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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).

F

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

−15.1

2016→2017

Heartland Creamery injury rate improved

Heartland Creamery's TCR fell 15.1 from 28.0 in 2016 to 13.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 28.0 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=28.0 · 2017=13.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Newark, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 20.5 · 622% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Yancey's Fancy Inc. …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Yancey's Fancy Inc. Main Rd. (0.2 TCR gap)

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Heartland Creamery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heartland Creamery averages 20.5 TCR (622% 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

Heartland Creamery TCR series: 2016=28 · 2017=13 · BLS 3.3

Where Heartland Creamery falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Missouri.

Heartland Creamery (42 employees, TCR 20.5) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Heartland Creamery
Heartland Creamery (42 employees, TCR 20.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Heartland Creamery has fewer employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu median and a higher 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
2017 13.0 9.7 4 0 0
2016 28.0 14.0 11 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · MO · Newark

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 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 Yancey's Fancy Inc. Main Rd. 20.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Deep Dairy Products, L.L.C. 21.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hoven 18.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ornua (Minnesota) Ingredients North America 18.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 055 - Berkeley 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Jefferson District 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2600 Delmar Office 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kadean Construction Company Corporate Office 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ozark Lodge and Steakhouse 24 FTE
NAT-TCR 220 - Overland Park Retail Store 20.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Country Health - Gifford #121 20.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gulf Stream Plant 57 20.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Suites Assisted Living 20.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Avanti Wind Systems, Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE WSW 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ottawa Cooperative Association 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn 42 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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