Industry profile · NAICS 311513

Processed cheeses manufacturing

Workplace injury rates across 382 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

382
Employers
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
BLS benchmark
13,144
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Processed cheeses manufacturing average 5.8 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.8 times the BLS national benchmark of 3.3.

5.8
avg TCR · reporting employers
3.3
BLS national benchmark
382
employers reporting
13,144
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Processed cheeses manufacturing Safety Data Reveals

The Processed cheeses manufacturing sector (NAICS 311513) encompasses 382 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 13,144 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.8 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 3.3 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 5.8 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.

The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Processed cheeses manufacturing that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
Ingredients - Cheese - West Middlesex PA West Middlesex, PA C 2.7
Ingredients - Cheese - Pollock SD Pollock, SD B 2.6
LQM Greenville, TN B 2.6
Gehl Foods, LLC. - Main Street Germantown, WI B 2.6
Crystal Farms RDC Lake Mills, WI B 2.6
Cedar Grove Cheese Inc Plain, WI B 2.5
Slippery Rock Slippery Rock, PA B 2.5
Glanbia Twin Falls Cheese Plant Twin Falls, ID B 2.5
Ingredients - Cheese - New Wilmington PA New Wilmington, PA B 2.5
Kraft Heinz Beaver Dam Beaver Dam, WI B 2.5
Foremost Farms - Lancaster Lancaster, WI B 2.4
Leprino Foods Roswell Roswell, NM B 2.4
Schreiber Foods, Inc. Smithfield, UT B 2.4
Kraft Heinz Foods Company Wausau, WI B 2.3
Leprino Foods Greeley Greeley, CO B 2.3
Cass City, MI Cass City, MI B 2.3
Adrian, MI Adrian, MI B 2.3
Foremost Farms USA (Marshfield, WI) Marshfield, WI B 2.2
Savencia Cheese USA LLC New Holland, PA B 2.2
Saputo Cheese_Paige Tulare, CA B 2.2
Leprino Foods Company - Greeley, CO Greeley, CO B 2.2
Castelli America, LLC Ashville, NY B 2.2
Hillsboro Hillsboro, WI B 2.1
Schreiber Foods Inc. - Carthage Carthage, MO B 2.1
Schreiber Foods Inc. - MGB Green Bay, WI B 2.1
Leprino Foods Co. Roswell NM Roswell, NM B 2.0
Leprino Foods Greeley, CO B 2.0
Leprino Foods Co Allendale, MI B 2.0
Sorrento Lactalis, Inc. South Park Plant Buffalo, NY B 1.9
Leprino Foods Company Lemoore, CA B 1.9
Foremost Farms - Clayton Clayton, WI B 1.9
Gamay Food Ingredients LLC New Berlin, WI B 1.8
057-PL001 Rochester, MN B 1.8
Foremost Farms USA (Richland Center, WI) Richland Center, WI B 1.8
ID Rupert, ID B 1.8
Lactalis USA - Merrill WI Merrill, WI B 1.8
Ingredients - Drying - Beaver UT Beaver, UT B 1.7
Foremost Farms - Milan Athens, WI B 1.7
Gamay Foods Ingredients, LLC New Berlin, WI B 1.7
Beaver, UT Beaver, UT B 1.7
Miyoko's Kitchen Petaluma, CA B 1.7
Fairview Plant Carthage, MO A 1.6
The Deli Source, LLC Waterloo, WI A 1.6
Mullins Cheese Knowlton Mosinee, WI A 1.6
Schreiber Foods Monett Monett, MO A 1.6
Bel Brands USA Little Chute, WI A 1.6
Schofield Schofield, WI A 1.6
Turlock, CA Turlock, CA A 1.6
Litehouse Dairy Facility Kootenai, ID A 1.6
MDF Food LLC Newton, IA A 1.6
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This sector averages 5.8 against a BLS benchmark of 3.3 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.