Cheese Manufacturing · South Dakota

Ingredients - Cheese - Pollock SD

Pollock, SD · ~36 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ingredients - Cheese - Pollock SD runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cheese Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Ingredients - Cheese - Pollock SD: 2.6 TCR = 79% of Cheese Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ingredients - Cheese - Pollock SD safety composite

Ingredients - Cheese - Pollock SD scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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

−5.2

2022→2024

Ingredients - Cheese - Pollock SD injury rate improved

Ingredients - Cheese - Pollock SD's TCR fell 5.2 from 5.2 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.2 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Pollock, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 79% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/10
  • PHOTO LQM
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LQM (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ingredients - Cheese - Pollock SD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ingredients - Cheese - Pollock SD averages 2.6 TCR (79% of the Cheese Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ingredients - Cheese - Pollock SD TCR series: 2022=5.2 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Ingredients - Cheese - Pollock SD falls in its industry

377 Cheese Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 80% 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 #1 safest of 10 Cheese Manufacturing employers in South Dakota.

Ingredients - Cheese - Pollock SD (36 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Ingredients - Cheese - Pollock SD
Ingredients - Cheese - Pollock SD (36 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Ingredients - Cheese - Pollock SD has fewer employees than the Cheese Manufacturing 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.2 2.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · SD · Pollock

377 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 LQM 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gehl Foods, LLC. - Main Street 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crystal Farms RDC 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedar Grove Cheese Inc 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Golden Dakota Farms LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montana Dakota Utilities - Rapid City, SD 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jensen Masonry, Inc. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE PrairieSons 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pollock, SD 40 FTE
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - OMA2 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Titan Reinforcing, LLC 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR West Monroe LA Plant 15 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR LRS - Wauconda 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Allina Health Emergency Medical Services River Falls 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allina Health Farmington Clinic 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allina Health River Falls Clinic 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Larson House Platinum 36 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, 2022. 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.