Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · California

Rizo-Lopez Foods Inc

Modesto, CA · ~229 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rizo-Lopez Foods Inc runs at 233% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Rizo-Lopez Foods Inc: 7.7 TCR = 233% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rizo-Lopez Foods Inc safety composite

Rizo-Lopez Foods Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

−1.3

2017→2024

Rizo-Lopez Foods Inc injury rate improved

Rizo-Lopez Foods Inc's TCR fell 1.3 from 7.6 in 2017 to 6.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.6 · 2018=7.7 · 2023=9.2 · 2024=6.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Modesto, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 233% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #30/36
  • PHOTO Meister Cheese Compa…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 66 inj
  • SIZE ~229 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Meister Cheese Company LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rizo-Lopez Foods Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rizo-Lopez Foods Inc averages 7.7 TCR (233% 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

Rizo-Lopez Foods Inc TCR series: 2017=7.6 · 2018=7.7 · 2023=9.2 · 2024=6.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Rizo-Lopez Foods Inc falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 24% 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 #30 safest of 36 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in California.

Rizo-Lopez Foods Inc (229 employees, TCR 7.7) 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 Rizo-Lopez Foods Inc
Rizo-Lopez Foods Inc (229 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Rizo-Lopez Foods Inc 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
2024 6.4 4.8 4 0 0
2023 9.2 4.4 30 1 0
2018 7.7 5.6 15 0 0
2017 7.6 3.8 17 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · CA · Modesto

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 418 employers in Modesto, 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 Meister Cheese Company LLC 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR La Quesera Mexicana 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ornua Ingredients North America 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE New Stone 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2400-Oxnard, CA 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTHERN FARMLAND CULTIVATION, INC. 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-Central Orange County S/C 229 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Valley Hospitals (30240) 3,153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Modesto Operations 3,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-930 3,018 FTE
CITY-NEAR 930 DOCTORS MEDICAL CENTER OF MODESTO 2,759 FTE
NAT-TCR coin division 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Rochelle Distribution Center 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR WATERBURY 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Roloff Construction 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Arc/Warren County Chapter, Inc. 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE ResMed Atlanta 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corp-Dwh-Corporate - Hst 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE WMI 229 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, 2018, 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.