Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Tennessee

LQM

Greenville, TN · ~140 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LQM runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

LQM: 2.6 TCR = 79% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LQM safety composite

LQM scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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

−2.5

2023→2024

LQM injury rate improved

LQM's TCR fell 2.5 from 3.8 in 2023 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.8 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Greenville, TN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 79% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Ingredients - Cheese…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~140 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ingredients - Cheese - Pollock SD (0.0 TCR gap)

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LQM in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LQM averages 2.6 TCR (79% 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

LQM TCR series: 2023=3.8 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where LQM falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Tennessee.

LQM (140 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 LQM
LQM (140 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

LQM 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 1.4 1.4 2 0 0
2023 3.8 3.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · TN · Greenville

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 3 employers in Greenville, TN · 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 - Pollock SD 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gehl Foods, LLC. - Main Street 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crystal Farms RDC 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedar Grove Cheese Inc 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rock City Mechanical Company, LLC 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mrs. Grissom's Salads, Inc. 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pratt Industries 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE ABC INOAC Exterior Systems 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR La Quesera Mexicana 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morning Pointe of Greenville 32 FTE
NAT-TCR Unilock Michigan INC 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR REG Newton, LLC 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hitemco LLC 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR West Hernando Office 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Soho 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Above All Store Fronts, Inc. 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Simmons Animal Nutrition-Milan 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Feeding America Tampa Bay 140 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.