Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · California

Leprino Foods West

Lemoore, CA · ~1,033 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Leprino Foods West runs at 268% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Leprino Foods West: 8.8 TCR = 268% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Leprino Foods West safety composite

Leprino Foods West scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Leprino Foods West: 1.1 → 16.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 16.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.77× in 2020

Leprino Foods West's TCR rose 15.5 from 1.1 in 2016 to 16.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 268% of ind

  • DART 15.6 DART
  • RANK #32/36
  • PHOTO Saputo Cheese USA Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~1,033 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Saputo Cheese USA Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Leprino Foods West in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Leprino Foods West averages 8.8 TCR (268% 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 West TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2020=16.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Leprino Foods West falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #32 safest of 36 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in California.

Leprino Foods West (1,033 employees, TCR 8.8) 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Leprino Foods West
Leprino Foods West (1,033 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Leprino Foods West 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
2020 16.6 15.6 17 0 0
2016 1.1 1.0 10 1 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 Saputo Cheese USA Inc. 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Cloud 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Main 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Denmark 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6017-Loc: CORP LOC - USA UNITED STATES - CULVER CITY 1,032 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA San Francisco (1515 3rd St - MB2) 1,034 FTE
STATE-SIZE GenMark Diagnostics Inc 1,031 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6795-86170B0199 1,031 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 552 1,479 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lemoore West Plant 1,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR Superior Ag Services, Inc. 936 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Service L.L.C. 564 FTE
NAT-TCR ROC - Retail Operations Center 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital (Houston, TX) 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Medina North 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairfield Inn and Suites South Boston 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE North American Lighting - Flora 1,033 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ashley Furniture - Leesport 1,033 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indiana Grand 1,033 FTE
NAT-SIZE Susquehanna Nuclear 1,033 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: 2020, 2016. 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.