Cheese merchant wholesalers · California

Tomales Bay Foods

Petaluma, CA · ~36 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tomales Bay Foods runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cheese merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Tomales Bay Foods: 1.5 TCR = 67% of Cheese merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tomales Bay Foods safety composite

Tomales Bay Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

Tomales Bay Foods: 0.0 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2018

Tomales Bay Foods's TCR rose 3.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 3.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424430 · Petaluma, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 67% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #7/22
  • PHOTO SFG - Hammond LA - K…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SFG - Hammond LA - Kenner (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tomales Bay Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tomales Bay Foods averages 1.5 TCR (67% of the Cheese merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Tomales Bay Foods TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=3 · BLS 2.2

Where Tomales Bay Foods falls in its industry

231 Cheese merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 22 Cheese merchant wholesalers employers in California.

Tomales Bay Foods (36 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Tomales Bay Foods
Tomales Bay Foods (36 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Tomales Bay Foods has fewer employees than the Cheese merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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
2018 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424430 · CA · Petaluma

231 Cheese merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 153 employers in Petaluma, 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 SFG - Hammond LA - Kenner 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Payco Foods Corp 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foremost Farms USA (Appleton DC) 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mayfield - Morristown 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE River Garden Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knight Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.H. MEEK & SONS INC. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dirt Farmer and Company 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 136 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 470 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 169 2,859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Solairus Aviation 1,400 FTE
NAT-TCR dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5164 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Penske : 4721-00 Cardinal/Tampa, FL 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fresh Foods Manufacturing (C149) 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Packers Chemical Holdings, LLC (doing buisiness as Packers Chemical) 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 600 - Allentown 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Textile Services 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE 800 - Harrisburg 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rbco 13 Mo Dpso 90-13-01-90 36 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: 2018, 2017. 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.