Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · New Jersey

Imperia Foods, Fairfield

Name: Imperia Foods, Fairfield Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Fairfield, NJ · ~165 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Imperia Foods, Fairfield runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Imperia Foods, Fairfield: 6.5 TCR = 198% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Imperia Foods, Fairfield safety composite

Imperia Foods, Fairfield scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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).

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−3.8

2016→2021

Imperia Foods, Fairfield injury rate improved

Imperia Foods, Fairfield's TCR fell 3.8 from 7.0 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.0 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=10.5 · 2021=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Fairfield, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 198% of ind

DART 2.6 DART
RANK #3/4
PHOTO Grande Brownsville
BOOK 4y book
INJ 41 inj
SIZE ~165 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grande Brownsville (0.0 TCR gap)

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6.5

What this shows Imperia Foods, Fairfield averages 6.5 TCR (198% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Imperia Foods, Fairfield TCR series: 2016=7 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=10.5 · 2021=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Imperia Foods, Fairfield falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in New Jersey.

Imperia Foods, Fairfield (165 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Imperia Foods, Fairfield 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
2021	3.2	2.6	5	0
2020	10.5	3.5	18	0
2019	5.5	1.2	9	0
2016	7.0	4.1	9	3

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · NJ · Fairfield

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 88 employers in Fairfield, NJ · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Grande Brownsville	BROWNSVILLE, WI	6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Los Altos Plant	CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA	6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Grande Juda	JUDA, WI	6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Agropur Lake Norden	LAKE NORDEN, SD	6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	PLASKOLITE ROTUBA PROFILES	LINDEN	165 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Camfil - Riverdale, NJ	RIVERDALE	165 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Ritchie & Page Distributing Co., Inc.	ROBBINSVILLE	165 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2402 LOWE S OF MANTUA TOWNSHIP NJ	SEWELL	165 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Middle Atlantic Products-Fairfield	Fairfield	495 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Legrand AV Inc.	Fairfield	345 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1175 - Fairfield	Fairfield	287 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Weiss-Aug Surgical Products	Fairfield	241 FTE
NAT-TCR	SCT of Ohio, Inc.	Barnesville, OH	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Canton Christian Home	Canton, OH	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Aiken Pest Control, Inc	Aiken, SC	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	4818-CSSD	San Diego, CA	6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Bulldog Movers Inc	Doraville, GA	165 FTE
NAT-SIZE	CenterPointe Hospital Columbia	Columbia, MO	165 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Re Investment Co LLC	Kalispell, MT	165 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Detroit, MI HVAC	Auburn Hills, MI	165 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.