Cheese Manufacturing and Why Products · California

Hilmar Cheese Company INC.

Hilmar, CA · ~971 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hilmar Cheese Company INC. runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese Manufacturing and Why Products workplace, earning a grade D.

Hilmar Cheese Company INC.: 6.3 TCR = 189% of Cheese Manufacturing and Why Products BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hilmar Cheese Company INC. safety composite

Hilmar Cheese Company INC. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

Hilmar Cheese Company INC. held a steady TCR band

Hilmar Cheese Company INC.'s TCR held near 0.3 from 5.7 in 2020 to 5.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.7 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=8.0 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Hilmar, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 189% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #25/36
  • PHOTO Fleur De Lait Foods
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 261 inj
  • SIZE ~971 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fleur De Lait Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hilmar Cheese Company INC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hilmar Cheese Company INC. averages 6.3 TCR (189% of the Cheese Manufacturing and Why Products BLS benchmark).

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

Hilmar Cheese Company INC. TCR series: 2020=5.7 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=8 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Hilmar Cheese Company INC. falls in its industry

377 Cheese Manufacturing and Why P establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 36 Cheese Manufacturing and Why P employers in California.

Hilmar Cheese Company INC. (971 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hilmar Cheese Company INC.
Hilmar Cheese Company INC. (971 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Hilmar Cheese Company INC. has more employees than the Cheese Manufacturing and Why Products 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
2024 5.4 4.8 49 5 0
2023 5.3 4.0 48 4 0
2022 8.0 6.5 68 6 0
2021 6.8 6.4 57 5 0
2020 5.7 4.9 39 15 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · CA · Hilmar

377 Cheese Manufacturing and Why Products employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 18 employers in Hilmar, CA · 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 Fleur De Lait Foods 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heyburn Facility 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Cheese_Newman 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Cheese_Bardsley 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Marz Farms Inc. 971 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maria Acevedo 971 FTE
STATE-SIZE ClearPath Workforce Managment 971 FTE
STATE-SIZE U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Centro 971 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilmar Site & HIC 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR J.A.C. Ag Services, Inc 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eck Farms Inc 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Americore, Inc. 75 FTE
NAT-TCR Valbruna Slater Stainless, Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR General Metals Corp. 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 109 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Fabricators of Virginia Inc 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1855-FLJAC5 971 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand Haven Area Public Schools 971 FTE
NAT-SIZE Okland Construction Company, Inc. 971 FTE
NAT-SIZE Masco Cabinetry Middlefield LLC Plant #2 971 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, 2020. 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.