Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · New Jersey

Imperia Foods

Fairfield, NJ · ~146 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Imperia Foods runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Imperia Foods: 3.4 TCR = 104% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Imperia Foods safety composite

Imperia Foods scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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

−6.8

2022→2024

Imperia Foods injury rate improved

Imperia Foods's TCR fell 6.8 from 6.8 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.8 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 104% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Kiel Dairy Foods Plant
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~146 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kiel Dairy Foods Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Imperia Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Imperia Foods averages 3.4 TCR (104% 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

Imperia Foods TCR series: 2022=6.8 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Imperia Foods falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in New Jersey.

Imperia Foods (146 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 Imperia Foods
Imperia Foods (146 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Imperia Foods has more employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.5 2.8 5 0 0
2022 6.8 4.0 10 0 0

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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Kiel Dairy Foods Plant 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kraft Heinz Foods Wausau 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ingredients - Cheese - Zumbrota MN 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schuman Cheese Elgin 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE WESTAMPTON NJ 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nipro PharmaPackaging Americas Tube Draw 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Haydon Corporation NJ 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2260 LOWE S OF MANAHAWKIN NJ 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR Middle Atlantic Products-Fairfield 495 FTE
CITY-NEAR Legrand AV Inc. 345 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1175 - Fairfield 287 FTE
CITY-NEAR Weiss-Aug Surgical Products 241 FTE
NAT-TCR Horizon Air Services Inc 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Berkel Shoring Washington DC 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tremco CPG Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Rotary Corporation 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Titan Talent Development, LLC 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand Village 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlanticare Management d/b/a Putnam Ridge 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mennonite Memorial Home 146 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. 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.