Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Minnesota

057-PL001

Rochester, MN · ~275 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

057-PL001 runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

057-PL001: 1.8 TCR = 55% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

057-PL001 safety composite

057-PL001 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

057-PL001: 0.4 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.43× in 2024

057-PL001's TCR rose 1.5 from 0.4 in 2022 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Rochester, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 55% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #3/24
  • PHOTO Gamay Food Ingredien…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~275 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gamay Food Ingredients LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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057-PL001 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 057-PL001 averages 1.8 TCR (55% 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

057-PL001 TCR series: 2022=0.4 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where 057-PL001 falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 24 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Minnesota.

057-PL001 (275 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 057-PL001
057-PL001 (275 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

057-PL001 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
2024 1.9 0.8 5 0 0
2023 3.2 1.6 8 0 0
2022 0.4 0.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · MN · Rochester

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 290 employers in Rochester, MN · 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 Gamay Food Ingredients LLC 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foremost Farms USA (Richland Center, WI) 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foremost Farms - Clayton 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ID 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Seneca Foods Corporation 275 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milaca Public School District #912 275 FTE
STATE-SIZE ELEMENTARY (100) 275 FTE
STATE-SIZE Duininck - MN 276 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Rochester 38,233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olmsted County 1,304 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC 1,051 FTE
CITY-NEAR FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS 823 FTE
NAT-TCR Tintoria Piana US Inc 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CR Meyer - Tulsa 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CR Meyer - Oshkosh 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Enderlin Edible Bean 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Greif Riverville 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE AstroNova Inc. 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Spring Hill 275 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wycliffe Golf & Country Club 275 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: 2024, 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.