Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · South Dakota

Agropur Lake Norden

Lake Norden, SD · ~433 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Agropur Lake Norden runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Agropur Lake Norden: 6.7 TCR = 203% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Agropur Lake Norden safety composite

Agropur Lake Norden scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−2.2

2023→2024

Agropur Lake Norden injury rate improved

Agropur Lake Norden's TCR fell 2.2 from 7.8 in 2023 to 5.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.8 · 2024=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Lake Norden, SD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 203% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #7/10
  • PHOTO Agropur-Le Sueur Che…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~433 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Agropur-Le Sueur Cheese Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Agropur Lake Norden in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Agropur Lake Norden averages 6.7 TCR (203% 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

Agropur Lake Norden TCR series: 2023=7.8 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Agropur Lake Norden falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 10 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in South Dakota.

Agropur Lake Norden (433 employees, TCR 6.7) 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 Agropur Lake Norden
Agropur Lake Norden (433 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Agropur Lake Norden has more employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu median and a higher 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 5.6 1.4 20 0 0
2023 7.8 3.5 27 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · SD · Lake Norden

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 8 employers in Lake Norden, SD · 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 Agropur-Le Sueur Cheese Company 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lactalis American Group Inc. - Belmont 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grande Juda 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rothenbuhler Cheesemakers, Inc. 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE LifeScape Children's Services - 26th St 428 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Mary's Hospital 438 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avera Behavioral Health Hospital 427 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 3872 440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Agropur 331 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake Norden Cheese 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avantara Lake Norden 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Star Logistics, LLC Lake Norden 60 FTE
NAT-TCR S.P. Richards Boston 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hamilton Tanks LLC 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pioneer Valley Lodge 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Deister Machine Company 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE BEI Construction Inc 433 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westphal and Company Inc 433 FTE
NAT-SIZE Txmca - Mc Allen 433 FTE
NAT-SIZE Billerud 433 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.