Cheese, imitation or substitute, manufacturing · Minnesota

Bongards Creameries Perham

Perham, MN · ~148 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bongards Creameries Perham runs at 273% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese, imitation or substitute, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Bongards Creameries Perham: 9.0 TCR = 273% of Cheese, imitation or substitute, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bongards Creameries Perham safety composite

Bongards Creameries Perham scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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 Perham: 7.7 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2024

Bongards Creameries Perham's TCR rose 1.3 from 7.7 in 2022 to 9.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Perham, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 273% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #21/24
  • PHOTO Saputo Cheese_Waupun
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~148 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Saputo Cheese_Waupun (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bongards Creameries Perham in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bongards Creameries Perham averages 9.0 TCR (273% of the Cheese, imitation or substitute, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bongards Creameries Perham TCR series: 2022=7.7 · 2023=10.2 · 2024=9.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Bongards Creameries Perham falls in its industry

377 Cheese, imitation or substitut establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #21 safest of 24 Cheese, imitation or substitut employers in Minnesota.

Bongards Creameries Perham (148 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 Perham
Bongards Creameries Perham (148 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Bongards Creameries Perham has more employees than the Cheese, imitation or substitute, manufac 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 7.1 14 0 0
2023 10.2 4.8 13 2 0
2022 7.7 4.2 7 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · MN · Perham

377 Cheese, imitation or substitute, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 29 employers in Perham, 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 Saputo Cheese_Waupun 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR AFP Clear Lake 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Main 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Cloud 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE American Surplus & Mfg. Inc. 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCL Construction Services, Inc. Minneapolis 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE Automated Logic Controls (Midwest) 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hero Home Services 148 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3061_5905 552 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barrel O'Fun SNack Foods Co., LLC 516 FTE
CITY-NEAR Perham Health 484 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shearer's Foods - PHM 449 FTE
NAT-TCR Village of Buffalo Grove 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR North Central Correctional Facility 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1752 Swn2 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Impact Fab 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Westco Iron Works 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Department of Public Works, Bureau of Street Lighting, Public Works Building 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bristol Farms - 018 - BF La Cumbre 148 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. 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.