Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Idaho

Jerome Cheese Co

Jerome, ID · ~359 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Jerome Cheese Co runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Jerome Cheese Co: 5.5 TCR = 165% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jerome Cheese Co safety composite

Jerome Cheese Co scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.09 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

−5.7

2016→2018

Jerome Cheese Co injury rate improved

Jerome Cheese Co's TCR fell 5.7 from 7.9 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.9 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Jerome, ID ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 165% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #14/15
  • PHOTO BelGioioso Cheese - …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 70 inj
  • SIZE ~359 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BelGioioso Cheese - Byron (0.0 TCR gap)

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Jerome Cheese Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jerome Cheese Co averages 5.5 TCR (165% 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

Jerome Cheese Co TCR series: 2016=7.9 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Jerome Cheese Co falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Idaho alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 15 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Idaho.

Jerome Cheese Co (359 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 Jerome Cheese Co
Jerome Cheese Co (359 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Jerome Cheese Co 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
2018 2.2 1.1 9 1 0
2017 6.3 4.5 28 0 0
2016 7.9 4.8 33 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · ID · Jerome

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,774 rated employers in Idaho with headcount on file · 53 employers in Jerome, ID · 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 BelGioioso Cheese - Byron 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marathon Cheese Corporation Mt. Home 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hummelstown, PA 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whitehall Specialties - Plant 3 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE A-Core of Boise 357 FTE
STATE-SIZE Doug Andrus Distributing LLC 357 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3472 363 FTE
STATE-SIZE CTI Foods - Wilder 364 FTE
CITY-NEAR Agropur Jerome 411 FTE
CITY-NEAR Agropur Inc. - Jerome Cheese Co 373 FTE
CITY-NEAR True West Beef, LLC 354 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spears Manufacturing 305 FTE
NAT-TCR Baltdon Inc 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Office 71 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakewood 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Heatron-200 Commercial 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Primetals Technologies Worcester 359 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nelson Tree Service LLC 359 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cameron 4601 Westway Park Blvd 359 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hydro - Delhi 359 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: 2018, 2017, 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.