Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing · Ohio

Pearl Valley Cheese

Fresno, OH · ~48 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pearl Valley Cheese runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Pearl Valley Cheese: 1.0 TCR = 29% of Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pearl Valley Cheese safety composite

Pearl Valley Cheese scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% 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

−2.7

2017→2024

Pearl Valley Cheese injury rate improved

Pearl Valley Cheese's TCR fell 2.7 from 2.7 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.7 · 2019=2.1 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Fresno, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 29% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/9
  • PHOTO K057-M001
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: K057-M001 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pearl Valley Cheese in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pearl Valley Cheese averages 1.0 TCR (29% of the Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Pearl Valley Cheese TCR series: 2017=2.7 · 2019=2.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Pearl Valley Cheese falls in its industry

377 Cheese, natural (except cottag establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 9 Cheese, natural (except cottag employers in Ohio.

Pearl Valley Cheese (48 employees, TCR 1.0) 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 Pearl Valley Cheese
Pearl Valley Cheese (48 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Pearl Valley Cheese has fewer employees than the Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2017 2.7 2.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · OH · Fresno

377 Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 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 K057-M001 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ingredients - Cheese - Beaver UT 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leprino Foods Company, Denver 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MGB plant 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ohio Heavy Equipment Leasing, LLC 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Butler Rural Electric Cooperative 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Dayton West 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE US Bronco Services, Inc 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heritage Cooperative: Fresno Agronomy 18 FTE
NAT-TCR Technomark Inc 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Aero Trades Mfg. Corp. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Charleston Gas Operations 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Enginuity Communications Corporation 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE MiEnergy Cooperative - Minnesota 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ralph White Electric Co., Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE VPS, Inc 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fallbrook Waste and Recycling 48 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, 2019, 2017. 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.