Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Texas

Stephenville Plant

Stephenville, TX · ~503 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Stephenville Plant runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Stephenville Plant: 1.4 TCR = 41% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Stephenville Plant safety composite

Stephenville Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% 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

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

Stephenville Plant: 0.6 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2023

Stephenville Plant's TCR rose 0.7 from 0.6 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Stephenville, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 41% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO RGB- Tempe
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 53 inj
  • SIZE ~503 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RGB- Tempe (0.0 TCR gap)

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Stephenville Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Stephenville Plant averages 1.4 TCR (41% 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

Stephenville Plant TCR series: 2016=0.6 · 2017=1.6 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=1 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Stephenville Plant falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Texas.

Stephenville Plant (503 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 Stephenville Plant
Stephenville Plant (503 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Stephenville Plant 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
2023 1.3 0.8 8 0 0
2022 1.3 0.9 7 0 0
2021 1.0 0.2 5 0 0
2020 1.9 1.1 7 3 0
2019 1.6 1.0 7 1 0
2018 1.6 1.0 8 0 0
2017 1.6 1.2 8 0 0
2016 0.6 0.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · TX · Stephenville

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 47 employers in Stephenville, TX · 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 RGB- Tempe 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Willmington, PA 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Only/Main 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mullins Cheese - Marshfield 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE OF East/Schepps - Dallas 503 FTE
STATE-SIZE Canfer Utility Services, LLC 504 FTE
STATE-SIZE McGregor, TX 504 FTE
STATE-SIZE Biomerics 504 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stephenville Facility 517 FTE
CITY-NEAR 610 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint-Gobain Abrasives 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 610 350 FTE
NAT-TCR Meadowlands Fire Protection 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR PA054 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CS USA Renaissance Charter Schools 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Productive Transportation Inc 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lahey Clinic North 503 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Star Aviation / Alton 503 FTE
NAT-SIZE Custom Foods of America 503 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charlotte Pipe and Foundry 503 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.