Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Ohio

Sugarcreek Factory

Sugarcreek, OH · ~60 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sugarcreek Factory runs at 236% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Sugarcreek Factory: 7.8 TCR = 236% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sugarcreek Factory safety composite

Sugarcreek Factory scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

−13.7

2016→2019

Sugarcreek Factory injury rate improved

Sugarcreek Factory's TCR fell 13.7 from 16.9 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 16.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=16.9 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Sugarcreek, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 236% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #8/9
  • PHOTO Grande Wyocena
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grande Wyocena (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sugarcreek Factory in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sugarcreek Factory averages 7.8 TCR (236% 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

Sugarcreek Factory TCR series: 2016=16.9 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Sugarcreek Factory falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #8 safest of 9 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Ohio.

Sugarcreek Factory (60 employees, TCR 7.8) 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 Sugarcreek Factory
Sugarcreek Factory (60 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Sugarcreek Factory has fewer 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
2019 3.2 3.2 2 0 0
2018 3.3 1.7 1 1 0
2016 16.9 11.8 8 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · OH · Sugarcreek

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 34 employers in Sugarcreek, OH · 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 Grande Wyocena 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schuman Cheese DBA Imperia Foods Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dairyfood USA, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agropur - Little Chute 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE White House Fruit Farm Inc 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wholesale 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity West 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gutknecht Construction Company 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR ProVia Walnut Creek Facility 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR ProVia Cherry Ridge Facility 218 FTE
CITY-NEAR ProVia 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR ProVia Sugarcreek Facility 192 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Chicago Dept of Fleet and Facility Management - 5219 S. Wentworth Ave. 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0027 3501 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Manufacturing 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR #65 Art Van Dearborn 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Spincraft 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : SVC-Florida District : SVC-Jacksonville FL-USA 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office and Day Habilitation 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE PDX-DC 60 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: 2019, 2018, 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.