Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · South Dakota

Agropur

Lake Norden, SD · ~331 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Agropur runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Agropur: 4.8 TCR = 146% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Agropur safety composite

Agropur scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

Agropur: 2.0 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2022

Agropur's TCR rose 3.6 from 2.0 in 2016 to 5.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 146% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #4/10
  • PHOTO Emmi Roth USA - Plat…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 95 inj
  • SIZE ~331 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Emmi Roth USA - Platteville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Agropur in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Agropur averages 4.8 TCR (146% 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 TCR series: 2016=2 · 2017=3 · 2020=6 · 2021=7.4 · 2022=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Agropur falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 51% 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 #4 safest of 10 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in South Dakota.

Agropur (331 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 Agropur
Agropur (331 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Agropur 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
2022 5.6 3.0 26 0 0
2021 7.4 3.8 33 0 0
2020 6.0 4.8 24 1 0
2017 3.0 2.6 8 0 0
2016 2.0 2.0 4 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 Emmi Roth USA - Platteville 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Land O' lakes - Spencer 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lamagna Food Group, LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MARATHON CHEESE CORPORATION 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 1483 332 FTE
STATE-SIZE SONIFI Solutions, Inc. Sioux Falls Office 330 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4021-500118200 329 FTE
STATE-SIZE Journey Group (Sioux Falls Construction) - Sioux Falls, SD 335 FTE
CITY-NEAR Agropur Lake Norden 433 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 1358 - Capitola 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR LKF-ODFL 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sky Harbor Distribution Center 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR HSC - Ohio Fabricating 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE LGA Services 331 FTE
NAT-SIZE District Center - Floating Employees 331 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3495-11DA004 331 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shriners Hospitals for Children - Portland 331 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2017, 2016. 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.