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

K057-M001

Rochester, MN · ~288 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

K057-M001 runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

K057-M001: 0.9 TCR = 28% of Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

K057-M001 safety composite

K057-M001 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

K057-M001: 0.7 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 1.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.58× in 2021

K057-M001's TCR rose 1.1 from 0.7 in 2017 to 1.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Rochester, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 28% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #2/24
  • PHOTO Pearl Valley Cheese
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~288 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pearl Valley Cheese (0.0 TCR gap)

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K057-M001 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows K057-M001 averages 0.9 TCR (28% 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

K057-M001 TCR series: 2017=0.7 · 2018=0 · 2019=0.7 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where K057-M001 falls in its industry

377 Cheese, natural (except cottag establishments

Safer than 97% 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 #2 safest of 24 Cheese, natural (except cottag employers in Minnesota.

K057-M001 (288 employees, TCR 0.9) 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 K057-M001
K057-M001 (288 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

K057-M001 has more 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 1.8 1.5 5 0 0
2020 1.4 1.4 4 0 0
2019 0.7 0.4 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.7 0.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · MN · Rochester

377 Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 290 employers in Rochester, 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 Pearl Valley Cheese 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leprino Foods Company, Denver 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ingredients - Cheese - Beaver UT 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ingredients - DC - Cheese- Dalbo MN 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vinco, Inc. 288 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vision Ease - Ramsey 288 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagan - Main Store 288 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1855 288 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Rochester 38,233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olmsted County 1,304 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC 1,051 FTE
CITY-NEAR FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS 823 FTE
NAT-TCR Rosemary Feed Delivery -Est 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 4818-CNSK 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Helena Grain Elevator 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 44321b - Bradenton 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE DFW 288 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maintenance Operations & Administration (MOA) 288 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maria Joseph 288 FTE
NAT-SIZE Petra Industries, LLC 288 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.