Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Colorado

Leprino Foods Company, Denver

Denver, CO · ~557 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Leprino Foods Company, Denver runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Leprino Foods Company, Denver: 0.8 TCR = 25% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Leprino Foods Company, Denver safety composite

Leprino Foods Company, Denver scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% 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).

B

84/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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

−1.4

2016→2019

Leprino Foods Company, Denver injury rate improved

Leprino Foods Company, Denver's TCR fell 1.4 from 1.6 in 2016 to 0.2 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.6 · 2017=0.8 · 2019=0.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Denver, CO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 25% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Ingredients - DC - C…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~557 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ingredients - DC - Cheese- Dalbo MN (0.1 TCR gap)

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Leprino Foods Company, Denver in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Leprino Foods Company, Denver averages 0.8 TCR (25% 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

Leprino Foods Company, Denver TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=0.8 · 2019=0.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Leprino Foods Company, Denver falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Colorado.

Leprino Foods Company, Denver (557 employees, TCR 0.8) 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 Leprino Foods Company, Denver
Leprino Foods Company, Denver (557 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Leprino Foods Company, Denver 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
2019 0.2 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.8 0.4 3 1 0
2016 1.6 1.4 6 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · CO · Denver

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 1,757 employers in Denver, CO · 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 - DC - Cheese- Dalbo MN 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR K057-M001 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pearl Valley Cheese 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Lincolnshire 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE RNDC Colorado 559 FTE
STATE-SIZE Purgatory Recreation Management, LLC 561 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2643-05500001-055001 562 FTE
STATE-SIZE SW-20730025-FO DEN - DENVER, CO 551 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEN DEN 9,832 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-DEN 6,769 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEN - Airport United Airlines Offices 5,277 FTE
CITY-NEAR CO-01 4,581 FTE
NAT-TCR Ah4r - Ca 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Field Service Orlando 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brooks Construction Services, Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Perrigo : Minnesota (PMN) 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE BP Exploration Alaska, Inc., - Anchorage Campus 557 FTE
NAT-SIZE PA - Zara 557 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastern Shipbuilding Group Nelson/Mill 557 FTE
NAT-SIZE District 10 557 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: 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.