Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing · Minnesota

Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur Cheese

Name: Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur Cheese Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Le Sueur, MN · ~172 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur Cheese runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur Cheese: 3.7 TCR = 112% of Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur Cheese safety composite

Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur Cheese scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% 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).

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers
DART rate: C 2.11 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2023→2024

Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur Cheese injury rate improved

Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur Cheese's TCR fell 1.0 from 4.2 in 2023 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.2 · 2024=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Le Sueur, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 112% of ind

DART 2.1 DART
RANK #6/24
PHOTO Agropur Jerome
BOOK 2y book
INJ 14 inj
SIZE ~172 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Agropur Jerome (0.0 TCR gap)

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3.7

What this shows Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur Cheese averages 3.7 TCR (112% of the Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur Cheese TCR series: 2023=4.2 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur Cheese falls in its industry

377 Cheese, natural (except cottag establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 24 Cheese, natural (except cottag employers in Minnesota.

Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur Cheese (172 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur Cheese has more employees than the Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), 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	3.2	2.1	6	0	0
2023	4.2	2.6	8	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · MN · Le Sueur

377 Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 15 employers in Le Sueur, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Agropur Jerome	JEROME, ID	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Foremost Farms - Chilton	CHILTON, WI	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bel Brands USA	BROOKINGS, SD	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	BREWSTER CHEESE COMPANY	RUPERT, ID	3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Kent Precision Foods Group- Foley	FOLEY	172 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Rosenbauer Motors LLC	WYOMING	172 FTE
STATE-SIZE	St. Paul, MN	ST. PAUL	172 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NORTH AMERICAN COMPOSITES COMPANY	LINO LAKES	172 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Cambria Plant	Le Sueur	548 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Le Sueur	Le Sueur	382 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Agropur-Le Sueur Cheese Company	Le Sueur	171 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ridgeview Le Sueur Medical Center	Le Sueur	132 FTE
NAT-TCR	Hilton Garden Inn	Providence, RI	3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Nazareth	Nazareth, PA	3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Alliant Systems, LLC	Portland, OR	3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Captain Steamer Carpet Cleaner	Cape Coral, FL	3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	ShopRite of Thornwood	Thornwood, NY	172 FTE
NAT-SIZE	GBC Concrete and Masonry Construction	Lake Elsinore, CA	172 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Worthington Steel Columbus	Columbus, OH	172 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Careone at the Cupola	Paramus, NJ	172 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. 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.