Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing · Minnesota

Bongards Creameries - Perham

Perham, MN · ~137 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bongards Creameries - Perham runs at 241% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Bongards Creameries - Perham: 7.9 TCR = 241% of Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y 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 total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−3.0

2017→2021

Bongards Creameries - Perham injury rate improved

Bongards Creameries - Perham's TCR fell 3.0 from 10.8 in 2017 to 7.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.8 · 2018=9.1 · 2019=6.0 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=7.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 241% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #19/24
  • PHOTO Whitehall Specialtie…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Whitehall Specialties - Plant 4 (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 7.9 TCR (241% of the Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, 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: 2017=10.8 · 2018=9.1 · 2019=6 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=7.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Bongards Creameries - Perham falls in its industry

377 Curds, cheese, made in a chees establishments

Safer than 22% 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 #19 safest of 24 Curds, cheese, made in a chees employers in Minnesota.

Bongards Creameries - Perham (137 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 - Perham
Bongards Creameries - Perham (137 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, m 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
2021 7.7 3.5 8 3 0
2020 6.2 4.1 9 0 0
2019 6.0 3.0 5 3 0
2018 9.1 3.0 5 7 0
2017 10.8 6.1 13 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · MN · Perham

377 Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, 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 Whitehall Specialties - Plant 4 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fleur de Lait East LLC 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Associated Milk Producers Inc (Portage) 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agropur - Little Chute 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE MAJOR MECHANICAL LLC 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rochester P802 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE NA-US-MN-Brooklyn Park-Office 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jonaco Machine 137 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 Forest Hill Health and Rehabilitation Center 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Forest View Elementary School 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR LP Tarpon Springs, LLC 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Tiger Sanitation, Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 285958-O'Fallon Mo Po 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kanawha Valley Operations Center 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Touchmark on Saddle Drive LLC 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Touchmark at All Saints LLC 137 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.