Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing · Texas

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. - Dalhart

Dalhart, TX · ~512 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. - Dalhart runs at 224% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. - Dalhart: 7.4 TCR = 224% of Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. - Dalhart safety composite

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. - Dalhart scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

−8.3

2016→2023

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. - Dalhart injury rate improved

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. - Dalhart's TCR fell 8.3 from 13.2 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 15.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.2 · 2017=15.6 · 2018=6.1 · 2019=6.6 · 2020=4.0 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Dalhart, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 224% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Grande Rolling Meadows
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 307 inj
  • SIZE ~512 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grande Rolling Meadows (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. - Dalhart in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. - Dalhart averages 7.4 TCR (224% of the Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. - Dalhart TCR series: 2016=13.2 · 2017=15.6 · 2018=6.1 · 2019=6.6 · 2020=4 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. - Dalhart falls in its industry

377 Cheese, natural (except cottag establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Cheese, natural (except cottag employers in Texas.

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. - Dalhart (512 employees, TCR 7.4) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. - Dalhart
Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. - Dalhart (512 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. - Dalhart has more employees than the Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), 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
2023 4.8 2.4 24 2 0
2022 4.4 2.1 24 1 0
2021 4.5 2.9 25 0 0
2020 4.0 2.9 22 2 0
2019 6.6 2.8 36 1 0
2018 6.1 3.9 34 0 0
2017 15.6 12.2 82 2 0
2016 13.2 10.7 60 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · TX · Dalhart

377 Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 22 employers in Dalhart, TX · 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 Grande Rolling Meadows 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chase 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MOUNTAIN HOME 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Cheese USA, Inc. 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lear Corporation - Arlington 512 FTE
STATE-SIZE BSN Sports LLC 512 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6458-ZSUG 512 FTE
STATE-SIZE PAM Rehab of Clear Lake 512 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc 537 FTE
CITY-NEAR JBS Live Pork LLC. Dalhart 271 FTE
CITY-NEAR USM Store 534 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR USM Store #534 (United) 161 FTE
NAT-TCR Whited Ford Truck Center 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0726 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100707 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunshine Plumbing and Gas 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Charles River Center 512 FTE
NAT-SIZE GA Foods_St Pete 512 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Health Center of Branch County 512 FTE
NAT-SIZE SFO-SPUSA 512 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.