Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing · South Dakota

Lake Norden Cheese

Name: Lake Norden Cheese Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Lake Norden, SD · ~308 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.2
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Lake Norden Cheese runs at 187% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Lake Norden Cheese: 6.2 TCR = 187% of Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lake Norden Cheese safety composite

Lake Norden Cheese scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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).

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 6.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Lake Norden Cheese: 3.6 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.75× in 2019

Lake Norden Cheese's TCR rose 5.1 from 3.6 in 2018 to 8.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Lake Norden, SD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 187% of ind

DART 4.6 DART
RANK #6/10
PHOTO Saputo Cheese_Bardsley
BOOK 2y book
INJ 41 inj
SIZE ~308 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Saputo Cheese_Bardsley (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Lake Norden Cheese averages 6.2 TCR (187% of the Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Lake Norden Cheese TCR series: 2018=3.6 · 2019=8.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Lake Norden Cheese falls in its industry

377 Curds, cheese, made in a chees establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 10 Curds, cheese, made in a chees employers in South Dakota.

Lake Norden Cheese (308 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Lake Norden Cheese has more employees than the Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, m 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
2019	8.7	4.6	30	0	0
2018	3.6	2.0	11	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · SD · Lake Norden

377 Curds, cheese, made in a cheese plant, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 8 employers in Lake Norden, SD · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Saputo Cheese_Bardsley	TULARE, CA	6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Imperia Foods - Fall Creek	FALL CREEK, WI	6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Saputo Cheese_Newman	NEWMAN, CA	6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ledgeview	GREEN BAY, WI	6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	1483	YANKTON	307 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Distribution and Services: ASI - Rapid City, SD	RAPID CITY	310 FTE
STATE-SIZE	500118200 - SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIV.	BROOKINGS	306 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WI Engineered Cabs - Watertown	WATERTOWN	305 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Agropur Lake Norden	Lake Norden	433 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Agropur	Lake Norden	331 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Avantara Lake Norden	Lake Norden	64 FTE
CITY-NEAR	North Star Logistics, LLC Lake Norden	Lake Norden	60 FTE
NAT-TCR	Capitol Heights MD	Capitol Heights, MD	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	CCG:CG032 - CG032-Acton, MA	Acton, MA	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Spring Mill Presbyterian Village	Lafayette Hill, PA	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	159 Boise, Id	Boise, ID	6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Huckleberry Entertainment	Burlington, IA	308 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Revere Copper Products Inc	Rome, NY	308 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Rantoul City Schools District #137	Rantoul, IL	308 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Yavapai-Apache Nation	Camp Verde, AZ	308 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: 2019, 2018. 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.