Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Laubscher Cheese Company

Name: Laubscher Cheese Company Workplace Safety Data
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Mercer, PA · ~36 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Laubscher Cheese Company runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Laubscher Cheese Company: 4.3 TCR = 130% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Laubscher Cheese Company safety composite

Laubscher Cheese Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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): C 4.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Laubscher Cheese Company: 2.8 → 10.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.18× in 2023

Laubscher Cheese Company's TCR rose 7.4 from 2.8 in 2021 to 10.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Mercer, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 130% of ind

DART 5.1 DART
RANK #7/14
PHOTO Whitehall East
BOOK 3y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Whitehall East (0.0 TCR gap)

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4.3
Whitehall East

4.3
V&V Supremo Fo

4.3
Saputo Cheese_

4.3
Cedar Valley C

4.3

What this shows Laubscher Cheese Company averages 4.3 TCR (130% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Laubscher Cheese Company TCR series: 2021=2.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=10.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Laubscher Cheese Company falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 14 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Pennsylvania.

Laubscher Cheese Company (36 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Laubscher Cheese Company has fewer 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
2023	10.1	5.1	4
2022	0.0	0.0	0
2021	2.8	2.8	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · PA · Mercer

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 18 employers in Mercer, PA · 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	Whitehall East	WHITEHALL, WI	4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - Browntown	BROWNTOWN, WI	4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Saputo Cheese_South Gate	SOUTH GATE, CA	4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Cedar Valley Cheese	BELGIUM, WI	4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	George Didden Greenhouses, Inc.	HATFIELD	36 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Altoona	ALTOONA	36 FTE
STATE-SIZE	UGI Penn Natural Gas Williamsport	WILLIAMSPORT	36 FTE
STATE-SIZE	TIS - PA - Fairless Hills	FAIRLESS HILLS	36 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Clearwater Construction	Mercer	155 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercer Forge Corporation	Mercer	148 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Countryside Convalescent Home LP	Mercer	105 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Quality Life Services Mercer	Mercer	91 FTE
NAT-TCR	Covenant Steel Warehouse, Inc.	Dothan, AL	4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	New London Specialty Care	New London, IA	4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ewing Signal Construction, LLC	Nixa, MO	4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	57230 - Snohomish	Everett, WA	4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Hawk Converting, LLC	Lewisburg, TN	36 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Front Ave. Ready Mix	Portland, OR	36 FTE
NAT-SIZE	70300 Capstone - SP Melrose Park	Melrose Park, IL	36 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bloomfield, CT	Bloomfield, CT	36 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.