Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Michigan

Zingerman's Creamery, LLC

Ann Arbor, MI · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Zingerman's Creamery, LLC runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Zingerman's Creamery, LLC: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Zingerman's Creamery, LLC safety composite

Zingerman's Creamery, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% 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

85/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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%).

Zingerman's Creamery, LLC held a steady TCR band

Zingerman's Creamery, LLC's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 0.0 TCR.

2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Ann Arbor, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/8
  • PHOTO Leprino Foods
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Leprino Foods (0.3 TCR gap)

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Zingerman's Creamery, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Zingerman's Creamery, LLC averages 0.0 TCR (0% 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

Zingerman's Creamery, LLC TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Zingerman's Creamery, LLC falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 8 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Michigan.

Zingerman's Creamery, LLC (20 employees, TCR 0.0) 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 Zingerman's Creamery, LLC
Zingerman's Creamery, LLC (20 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Zingerman's Creamery, LLC has fewer 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · MI · Ann Arbor

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 271 employers in Ann Arbor, MI · 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 Leprino Foods 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agropur - Appleton Office 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schreiber Foods Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 177-PL001 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tholrund Brothers 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indeck Niles Energy Center 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michigan Solar Solutions West 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE WTB Tuscola Bay Wind Plant 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital-AnnArbor 5,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph Mercy Hospital-Ann Arbor 5,554 FTE
CITY-NEAR IHA Health Services Corporation 2,533 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thomson Reuters - Ann Arbor 1,090 FTE
NAT-TCR 1655 3rd St,San Francisco (MB3 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Carbro Constructors Corp Main 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kinship Pointe Seward 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Keller Warehouse 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 3 - Delaware 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unilock Marengo 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Torrington Station 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE DWH Creative Contracting, Inc. 20 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. 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.