Cheese manufractuing · Texas

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc

Dalhart, TX · ~537 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc runs at 109% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese manufractuing workplace, earning a grade C.

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc: 3.6 TCR = 109% of Cheese manufractuing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc safety composite

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−2.4

2023→2024

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc injury rate improved

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc's TCR fell 2.4 from 4.8 in 2023 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.8 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 109% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Sorrento Lactalis Na…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~537 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sorrento Lactalis Nampa Site (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 3.6 TCR (109% of the Cheese manufractuing 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: 2023=4.8 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc falls in its industry

377 Cheese manufractuing establishments

Safer than 68% 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 #3 safest of 4 Cheese manufractuing employers in Texas.

Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc (537 employees, TCR 3.6) 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
Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc (537 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 manufractuing median and a lower 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 2.4 1.1 12 1 0
2023 4.8 2.4 24 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · TX · Dalhart

377 Cheese manufractuing 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 Sorrento Lactalis Nampa Site 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foremost Farms - Appleton 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Biery Cheese Company Louisville 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whitehall West 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE USM Store #543 537 FTE
STATE-SIZE Texas TransEastern 537 FTE
STATE-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : DFW5 537 FTE
STATE-SIZE 540-FC005 537 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. - Dalhart 512 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 Fort Collins Hilton 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sorenson Engineering, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Graphic Dimensions Inc 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Roberds Converting Co, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Seattle Mariners, Safeco Field 537 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big M Transportation, Inc. 537 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lehr Construction Company 537 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atl-Flight Ops 537 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. 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.