Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · South Dakota

Hoven

Hoven, SD · ~33 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hoven runs at 558% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Hoven: 18.4 TCR = 558% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hoven safety composite

Hoven scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Hoven: 15.3 → 21.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 21.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2023

Hoven's TCR rose 5.8 from 15.3 in 2019 to 21.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Hoven, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.4 · 558% of ind

  • DART 14.1 DART
  • RANK #9/10
  • PHOTO Ornua (Minnesota) In…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ornua (Minnesota) Ingredients North America (0.2 TCR gap)

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Hoven in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hoven averages 18.4 TCR (558% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hoven TCR series: 2019=15.3 · 2020=14.7 · 2021=20.5 · 2022=20.5 · 2023=21.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Hoven falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 10 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in South Dakota.

Hoven (33 employees, TCR 18.4) 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 Hoven
Hoven (33 employees, TCR 18.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Hoven has fewer employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu 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
2023 21.1 14.1 6 0 0
2022 20.5 20.5 5 0 0
2021 20.5 13.7 6 0 0
2020 14.7 2.9 5 0 0
2019 15.3 9.2 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · SD · Hoven

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota 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 Ornua (Minnesota) Ingredients North America 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Associated Milk Producers Inc (Sanborn) 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beecher's Production WA 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Comstock Creamery LLC 17.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Clark Drew Construction, Inc 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tower Systems Inc. 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brooks Construction Services, Inc. 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baker Timber Products Inc. 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Associated Milk Producers Inc (Hoven) 37 FTE
NAT-TCR 163486-Hazel Crest Po 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Peregrine Transportation 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sherman Oaks Rehabilitation 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CAN018 18.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Martin's Pretzel Bakery LLC 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Superior Packaging Solutions & Services / Ainsley Superior Warehouse 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE BrandSafway Services, LLC - Harrisburg Branch 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Leland Powell 33 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.