Processed cheeses manufacturing · Minnesota

Bongards' Creameries

Norwood Young America, MN · ~223 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bongards' Creameries runs at 208% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Processed cheeses manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Bongards' Creameries: 6.9 TCR = 208% of Processed cheeses manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bongards' Creameries safety composite

Bongards' Creameries scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

Bongards' Creameries: 7.1 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2024

Bongards' Creameries's TCR rose 1.9 from 7.1 in 2017 to 9.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Norwood Young America, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 208% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #14/24
  • PHOTO Cheese Merchants of …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~223 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cheese Merchants of America (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bongards' Creameries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bongards' Creameries averages 6.9 TCR (208% of the Processed cheeses manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Bongards' Creameries TCR series: 2017=7.1 · 2018=7.8 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=9.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Bongards' Creameries falls in its industry

377 Processed cheeses manufacturin establishments

Safer than 32% 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 #14 safest of 24 Processed cheeses manufacturin employers in Minnesota.

Bongards' Creameries (223 employees, TCR 6.9) 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 Bongards' Creameries
Bongards' Creameries (223 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Bongards' Creameries has more employees than the Processed cheeses manufacturing 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 9.1 3.5 15 6 0
2023 5.3 4.4 12 0 0
2022 5.1 1.4 5 6 0
2018 7.8 2.8 9 8 0
2017 7.1 4.3 9 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · MN · Norwood Young America

377 Processed cheeses manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 4 employers in Norwood Young America, 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 Cheese Merchants of America 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CYPRESS GROVE CHEVRE INC 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Lakes Cheese 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rothenbuhler Cheesemakers, Inc. 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Linden 223 FTE
STATE-SIZE Custom Drywall Inc 223 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rahr Malting Co. - Shakopee MN 223 FTE
STATE-SIZE 07 MN 223 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Haven at Peace Village 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Harbor at Peace Village 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hydro Engineering 23 FTE
NAT-TCR Life Care Center of Sullivan 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Farrington Court 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 005 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 813 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE NutraStar 223 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lunenburg Correctional Center 223 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pearland 223 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brandon & Clark, Inc 223 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.