Cheese Manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Ingredients - Cheese - West Middlesex PA

West Middlesex, PA · ~61 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ingredients - Cheese - West Middlesex PA runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Ingredients - Cheese - West Middlesex PA: 2.7 TCR = 82% of Cheese Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ingredients - Cheese - West Middlesex PA safety composite

Ingredients - Cheese - West Middlesex PA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% 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)
B 2.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ingredients - Cheese - West Middlesex PA: 1.8 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2024

Ingredients - Cheese - West Middlesex PA's TCR rose 1.7 from 1.8 in 2022 to 3.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · West Middlesex, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #5/14
  • PHOTO Kraft Heinz Foods Co…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kraft Heinz Foods Company - Lowville, NY (0.1 TCR gap)

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Ingredients - Cheese - West Middlesex PA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ingredients - Cheese - West Middlesex PA averages 2.7 TCR (82% of the Cheese Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ingredients - Cheese - West Middlesex PA TCR series: 2022=1.8 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Ingredients - Cheese - West Middlesex PA falls in its industry

377 Cheese Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 14 Cheese Manufacturing employers in Pennsylvania.

Ingredients - Cheese - West Middlesex PA (61 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 Ingredients - Cheese - West Middlesex PA
Ingredients - Cheese - West Middlesex PA (61 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Ingredients - Cheese - West Middlesex PA has fewer employees than the Cheese Manufacturing 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 3.5 1.8 2 0 0
2022 1.8 1.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · PA · West Middlesex

377 Cheese Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 7 employers in West Middlesex, PA · 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 Kraft Heinz Foods Company - Lowville, NY 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plymouth 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schreiber Foods 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agropur Inc. - Jerome Cheese Co 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Connellsville 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE McKeesport Service Center 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forino Co., LP 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hallstrom Construction Inc. 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Middlesex 055 498 FTE
CITY-NEAR Colonial Metal Products 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Middlesex 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR D & G Mechanical Inc. 52 FTE
NAT-TCR Smalto, INC. DBA Pemco International 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 777 Larkfield Road 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 4551 Bennington 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Doghouse Dyeworks LLC 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE All American Poly of Arkansas 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE WD Door - Ankeny 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE DFW 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paducah Rigging 61 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, 2022. 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.