Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · California

Lemoore West Plant

Lemoore, CA · ~1,096 workers · 2 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

Lemoore West Plant runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Lemoore West Plant: 3.4 TCR = 102% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lemoore West Plant safety composite

Lemoore West Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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)
C 3.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

Lemoore West Plant: 3.1 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2024

Lemoore West Plant's TCR rose 0.5 from 3.1 in 2023 to 3.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Lemoore, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 102% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #10/36
  • PHOTO Foremost Farms USA (…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 64 inj
  • SIZE ~1,096 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Foremost Farms USA (Milan, WI) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lemoore West Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lemoore West Plant averages 3.4 TCR (102% 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

Lemoore West Plant TCR series: 2023=3.1 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Lemoore West Plant falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 72% 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 #10 safest of 36 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in California.

Lemoore West Plant (1,096 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Lemoore West Plant
Lemoore West Plant (1,096 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Lemoore West Plant 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 3.6 3.1 33 6 0
2023 3.1 2.8 31 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · CA · Lemoore

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 30 employers in Lemoore, 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 Foremost Farms USA (Milan, WI) 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leprino Foods - FTM 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foremost Farms - Richland Center 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Cheese_Green Bay 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Behavioral Health 1,097 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2032-08680101 1,094 FTE
STATE-SIZE NGMS-N240 1,099 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sutter Bay Medical Foundation (30830) 1,093 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 552 1,479 FTE
CITY-NEAR Leprino Foods West 1,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR Superior Ag Services, Inc. 936 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Service L.L.C. 564 FTE
NAT-TCR Tucson University Park Hotel 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Kingston of Vermilion 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Robbinsville 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Aoc, LLC 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nccha - Charlotte Hub 1,096 FTE
NAT-SIZE PHX1 1,096 FTE
NAT-SIZE Willmar Ave Plant 1,096 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2 Lincoln Center 1,096 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. 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.