Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing · Minnesota

Dalbo, MN

Dalbo, MN · ~86 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dalbo, MN runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Dalbo, MN: 4.5 TCR = 138% of Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dalbo, MN safety composite

Dalbo, MN scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Dalbo, MN: 4.0 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2021

Dalbo, MN's TCR rose 2.2 from 4.0 in 2017 to 6.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Dalbo, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 138% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #10/24
  • PHOTO MDS Foods Inc Tennes…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MDS Foods Inc Tennessee (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dalbo, MN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dalbo, MN averages 4.5 TCR (138% of the Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dalbo, MN TCR series: 2017=4 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=6.7 · 2021=6.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Dalbo, MN falls in its industry

377 Cheese, natural (except cottag establishments

Safer than 55% 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 #10 safest of 24 Cheese, natural (except cottag employers in Minnesota.

Dalbo, MN (86 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 Dalbo, MN
Dalbo, MN (86 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Dalbo, MN has fewer employees than the Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), 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
2021 6.2 3.7 5 0 0
2020 6.7 3.4 6 0 0
2019 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2017 4.0 1.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · MN · Dalbo

377 Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 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 MDS Foods Inc Tennessee 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chili, WI 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lancaster 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marquez Brothers International, Inc. - Hanford 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 34 RECC 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Palmer Soderberg, Inc. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-State Drilling 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lloyd's Construction Services, Inc. 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ingredients - DC - Cheese- Dalbo MN 66 FTE
NAT-TCR Corporate 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR CT River Academy 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sensient Natural Ingredients, Turlock 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Our Lady of Fatima 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Portland Casting Plant 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Culpeper 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bwc Corporate 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Comarco 86 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, 2017. 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.