Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Iowa

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Sanborn)

Sanborn, IA · ~104 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Sanborn) runs at 532% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Sanborn): 17.6 TCR = 532% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Sanborn) safety composite

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Sanborn) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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).

F

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Sanborn): 16.9 → 22.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 22.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2018

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Sanborn)'s TCR rose 5.4 from 16.9 in 2016 to 22.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Sanborn, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 17.6 · 532% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Beecher's Production…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 56 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Beecher's Production WA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Associated Milk Producers Inc (Sanborn) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Associated Milk Producers Inc (Sanborn) averages 17.6 TCR (532% 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

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Sanborn) TCR series: 2016=16.9 · 2017=13.6 · 2018=22.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Associated Milk Producers Inc (Sanborn) falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Iowa.

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Sanborn) (104 employees, TCR 17.6) 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 Associated Milk Producers Inc (Sanborn)
Associated Milk Producers Inc (Sanborn) (104 employees, TCR 17.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Sanborn) has fewer 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
2018 22.3 8.6 25 1 0
2017 13.6 3.9 14 0 0
2016 16.9 9.8 17 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · IA · Sanborn

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 5 employers in Sanborn, IA · 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 Beecher's Production WA 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Comstock Creamery LLC 17.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cascade Cheese Company 17.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ornua (Minnesota) Ingredients North America 18.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Iowa 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE BHE - Council Bluff College Rd (IA001) 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thombert 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE State Steel Supply Company 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie View Campus 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanborn 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hartog Elevator 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farmers Coop Society-Sanborn 34 FTE
NAT-TCR CCAN - Ashtabula 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Gelson's Markets #108 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sacramento-Antelope #036 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Norris School District 160 17.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tronox LLC Henderson Facility 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Republic National Distributing Company 20 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of Copper Basin 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cornerstone Nursing & Rehabilitation 104 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.