Employer · Minnesota

Foodservice Northland Cheese - 1036

Rice, MN · ~122 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Foodservice Northland Cheese - 1036 runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Foodservice Northland Cheese - 1036: 4.1 TCR = 124% of industry BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foodservice Northland Cheese - 1036 safety composite

Foodservice Northland Cheese - 1036 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

Foodservice Northland Cheese - 1036: 3.9 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.54× in 2024

Foodservice Northland Cheese - 1036's TCR rose 1.2 from 3.9 in 2022 to 5.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 124% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #8/24
  • PHOTO Glanbia Gooding Chee…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~122 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Glanbia Gooding Cheese and Whey Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Foodservice Northland Cheese - 1036 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Foodservice Northland Cheese - 1036 averages 4.1 TCR (124% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Foodservice Northland Cheese - 1036 TCR series: 2022=3.9 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Foodservice Northland Cheese - 1036 falls in its industry

377 industry establishments

Safer than 60% 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 #8 safest of 24 industry employers in Minnesota.

Foodservice Northland Cheese - 1036 (122 employees, TCR 4.1) 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 Foodservice Northland Cheese - 1036
Foodservice Northland Cheese - 1036 (122 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Foodservice Northland Cheese - 1036 has fewer employees than the industry 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
2024 5.1 2.2 7 0 0
2023 3.2 1.9 5 0 0
2022 3.9 2.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · MN · Rice

377 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 11 employers in Rice, 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 Glanbia Gooding Cheese and Whey Plant 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lyrical Foods Inc. Dba Kite Hill -Hayward 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Middlebury Cheese Company 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agropur - Weyauwega 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Doran Companies LLc. 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE FHR Pine Bend 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zintl, Inc. 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Modernistic, Inc. 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foodservice Minnesota - 1016 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Performance Minnesota - 1016 173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virnig Manufacturing Rice MN 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR Performance Northland Cheese - 1036 113 FTE
NAT-TCR American Mitsuba Corporation 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR City Transfer, Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Essendant: Perris OE FE IE 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hwy 20 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE FandS transportation, Inc. 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bothell Health Care 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE W. C. English, Incorporated 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fisher Barton Blades, Inc. 122 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.