Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · California

Rizo Lopez Foods Inc.

Name: Rizo Lopez Foods Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Modesto, CA · ~264 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Rizo Lopez Foods Inc. runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Rizo Lopez Foods Inc.: 3.7 TCR = 111% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rizo Lopez Foods Inc. safety composite

Rizo Lopez Foods Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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).

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Rizo Lopez Foods Inc.: 2.1 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.42× in 2022

Rizo Lopez Foods Inc.'s TCR rose 3.1 from 2.1 in 2019 to 5.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 111% of ind

DART 5.2 DART
RANK #12/36
PHOTO Bel Brands USA
BOOK 2y book
INJ 17 inj
SIZE ~264 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bel Brands USA (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Rizo Lopez Foods Inc. averages 3.7 TCR (111% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Rizo Lopez Foods Inc. TCR series: 2019=2.1 · 2022=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Rizo Lopez Foods Inc. falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 36 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in California.

Rizo Lopez Foods Inc. (264 employees, TCR 3.7) 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 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
2022	5.2	5.2	13	0	0
2019	2.1	1.1	4	2	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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Bel Brands USA	BROOKINGS, SD	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	BREWSTER CHEESE COMPANY	RUPERT, ID	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Agropur Jerome	JEROME, ID	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur Cheese	LE SUEUR, MN	3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	T & P Farms, LP	ARBUCKLE	264 FTE
STATE-SIZE	I.S.A. CONTRACTING SERVICES, INC.	FIREBAUGH	264 FTE
STATE-SIZE	METRO CONSTRUCT/FIELD SERV - 1	SAN DIEGO	264 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SonRay Construction	ROCKLIN	264 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sutter Valley Hospitals (30240)	Modesto	3,153 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Modesto Operations	Modesto	3,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR	4701-930	Modesto	3,018 FTE
CITY-NEAR	930 DOCTORS MEDICAL CENTER OF MODESTO	Modesto	2,759 FTE
NAT-TCR	130500-Barrigada Gu Po	Barrigada, GU	3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	343423-Gallup Po	Gallup, NM	3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Save A Lot #140	Jamestown, TN	3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	189354-Waterloo P&Df	Waterloo, IA	3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Menasha Packaging Company - Tobyhanna	Tobyhanna, PA	264 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ichor Systems - Portland	Tualatin, OR	264 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Puerto Rico	Salinas, PR	264 FTE
NAT-SIZE	K-Flex USA LLC	Youngsville, NC	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: 2022, 2019. 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.