Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · California

Hilmar Site & HIC

Hilmar, CA · ~931 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hilmar Site & HIC runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Hilmar Site & HIC: 5.1 TCR = 154% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hilmar Site & HIC safety composite

Hilmar Site & HIC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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 Site & HIC held a steady TCR band

Hilmar Site & HIC's TCR held near 0.3 from 4.7 in 2017 to 5.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.7 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 154% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #19/36
  • PHOTO Imperia Foods, Montf…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 133 inj
  • SIZE ~931 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Imperia Foods, Montfort (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hilmar Site & HIC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hilmar Site & HIC averages 5.1 TCR (154% 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

Hilmar Site & HIC TCR series: 2017=4.7 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Hilmar Site & HIC falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #19 safest of 36 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in California.

Hilmar Site & HIC (931 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hilmar Site & HIC
Hilmar Site & HIC (931 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Hilmar Site & HIC has more 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
2019 5.0 4.1 43 2 0
2018 5.5 3.3 49 1 0
2017 4.7 3.7 41 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · CA · Hilmar

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing 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 Imperia Foods, Montfort 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MEDFORD 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Cheese (Las Cruces) 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MDS Foods, Inc. - Tullahoma Location 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE NuVasive, Inc 931 FTE
STATE-SIZE Giumarra Vineyard Corporation 930 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4263-26713 930 FTE
STATE-SIZE St Rose Hospital 929 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilmar Cheese Company INC. 971 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 2039-Oklahoma City 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Enterprise Marking Products 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0005 2910 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Delta Steel DFW 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE George's Edinburg Processing Plant 931 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crossways 931 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advocate Trinity Hospital 931 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.