Processed cheeses manufacturing · Indiana

Middlebury Cheese Company

Middlebury, IN · ~37 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Middlebury Cheese Company runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Processed cheeses manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Middlebury Cheese Company: 4.0 TCR = 123% of Processed cheeses manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Middlebury Cheese Company safety composite

Middlebury Cheese Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−1.2

2020→2024

Middlebury Cheese Company injury rate improved

Middlebury Cheese Company's TCR fell 1.2 from 4.5 in 2020 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.5 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=12.5 · 2024=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Middlebury, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 123% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK P61
  • PHOTO Lyrical Foods Inc. D…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lyrical Foods Inc. Dba Kite Hill -Hayward (0.0 TCR gap)

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Middlebury Cheese Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Middlebury Cheese Company averages 4.0 TCR (123% of the Processed cheeses manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Middlebury Cheese Company TCR series: 2020=4.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=12.5 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Middlebury Cheese Company falls in its industry

377 Processed cheeses manufacturin establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Middlebury Cheese Company (37 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Middlebury Cheese Company
Middlebury Cheese Company (37 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Middlebury Cheese Company has fewer employees than the Processed cheeses manufacturing 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 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2023 12.5 6.3 4 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.5 2.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · IN · Middlebury

377 Processed cheeses manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 47 employers in Middlebury, IN · 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 Lyrical Foods Inc. Dba Kite Hill -Hayward 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agropur - Weyauwega 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dairygold Inc 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glanbia Blackfoot Cheese Plant 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Utopian Plants Indiana, LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cokenergy 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE CORE Construction Indiana, LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1038 - BELFOR Indianapolis IN 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jayco Inc 2,751 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grand Design Rv 2,359 FTE
CITY-NEAR LCI - 028 449 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lozier Corporation - Middlebury 401 FTE
NAT-TCR Tools of Marketing, Inc 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Selectos Gurabo, INC. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Glendinning Products LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ARC Imperial Valley 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plastic Engineering Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Russo Development Inc 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alpine Gardens 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE MN015 37 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.