Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing · California

Kraft Heinz -Tulare CA

Tulare, CA · ~209 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kraft Heinz -Tulare CA runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Kraft Heinz -Tulare CA: 3.5 TCR = 106% of Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kraft Heinz -Tulare CA safety composite

Kraft Heinz -Tulare CA scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

Kraft Heinz -Tulare CA: 0.8 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.28× in 2021

Kraft Heinz -Tulare CA's TCR rose 5.1 from 0.8 in 2017 to 5.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 106% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #11/36
  • PHOTO Ingredients - Cheese…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~209 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ingredients - Cheese - Zumbrota MN (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kraft Heinz -Tulare CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kraft Heinz -Tulare CA averages 3.5 TCR (106% of the Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kraft Heinz -Tulare CA TCR series: 2017=0.8 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=5.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Kraft Heinz -Tulare CA falls in its industry

377 Curds, cheese, made in a chees establishments

Safer than 68% 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 #11 safest of 36 Curds, cheese, made in a chees employers in California.

Kraft Heinz -Tulare CA (209 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 Kraft Heinz -Tulare CA
Kraft Heinz -Tulare CA (209 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Kraft Heinz -Tulare CA has more employees than the Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, m 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
2021 5.8 1.0 2 10 0
2020 6.5 1.5 4 9 0
2019 1.6 0.5 2 1 0
2018 2.9 1.0 2 4 0
2017 0.8 0.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · CA · Tulare

377 Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 130 employers in Tulare, 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 Ingredients - Cheese - Zumbrota MN 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whitehall West 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kraft Heinz Foods Wausau 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Imperia Foods 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Valle Del Sol 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-Dominguez Hills S/C 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE CENTRAL DISTRICT - POWER 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE Christian Brothers Mechanical Services, Inc. 209 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Ag Personnel Management Inc. 8,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cal Enterprise Labor Solutions, Inc. 5,974 FTE
CITY-NEAR Golden State Ag Services, Inc. 5,846 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Labor Services, Inc. 2,845 FTE
NAT-TCR Inland Label and Marketing Services, LLC - LNW 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Swiss Krono SC, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Trulite Grenada 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Endicott 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Main Plant 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE Envision Hospice Staff 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE JJ Taylor Companies Inc. - Minnesota 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZLOR 209 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.