Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Michigan

Mwc, LLC

St. Johns, MI · ~264 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mwc, LLC runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Mwc, LLC: 4.6 TCR = 139% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mwc, LLC safety composite

Mwc, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Mwc, LLC: 3.1 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2024

Mwc, LLC's TCR rose 2.6 from 3.1 in 2022 to 5.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · St. Johns, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 139% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO Foremost Farms USA (…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~264 FTE

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

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Mwc, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mwc, LLC averages 4.6 TCR (139% 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

Mwc, LLC TCR series: 2022=3.1 · 2023=5 · 2024=5.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Mwc, LLC falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Michigan.

Mwc, LLC (264 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 Mwc, LLC
Mwc, LLC (264 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Mwc, LLC 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 5.7 4.1 14 0 0
2023 5.0 3.5 11 2 0
2022 3.1 1.9 6 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · MI · St. Johns

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 14 employers in St. Johns, MI · 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 (Clayton, WI) 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arla Foods Hollandtown 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo-Levin 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chili, WI 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE 104143 - Niles Energy Center 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE Giffin Inc 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE L3Harris Aviation Products 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spartan Firre - Charlotte 264 FTE
CITY-NEAR 82 - St. Johns 418 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Johns 313 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAHLE Engine Components USA, Inc. - St. Johns 306 FTE
CITY-NEAR BU-1 Rings St. Johns 217 FTE
NAT-TCR Federal Way 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Providence Center 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Kronospan Particle Board AN27 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Skyland Grain, LLC- Olton Gin 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Independence Oilfield Chemicals, LLC 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lee Industries Plant 5 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE Champion Carrier Corp 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE Friends Homes Guilford 264 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. 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.