Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Minnesota

Ornua (Minnesota) Ingredients North America

Byron, MN · ~32 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ornua (Minnesota) Ingredients North America runs at 552% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Ornua (Minnesota) Ingredients North America: 18.2 TCR = 552% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ornua (Minnesota) Ingredients North America safety composite

Ornua (Minnesota) Ingredients North America scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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 18.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

−2.4

2018→2019

Ornua (Minnesota) Ingredients North America injury rate improved

Ornua (Minnesota) Ingredients North America's TCR fell 2.4 from 19.4 in 2018 to 17.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 19.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=19.4 · 2019=17.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Byron, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.2 · 552% of ind

  • DART 17.0 DART
  • RANK #24/24
  • PHOTO Hoven
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hoven (0.2 TCR gap)

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Ornua (Minnesota) Ingredients North America in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ornua (Minnesota) Ingredients North America averages 18.2 TCR (552% 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

Ornua (Minnesota) Ingredients North America TCR series: 2018=19.4 · 2019=17 · BLS 3.3

Where Ornua (Minnesota) Ingredients North America falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #24 safest of 24 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Minnesota.

Ornua (Minnesota) Ingredients North America (32 employees, TCR 18.2) 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 Ornua (Minnesota) Ingredients North America
Ornua (Minnesota) Ingredients North America (32 employees, TCR 18.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Ornua (Minnesota) Ingredients North America 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
2019 17.0 17.0 6 0 0
2018 19.4 3.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · MN · Byron

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 26 employers in Byron, 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 Hoven 18.4 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 MN Farm 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz SE Office 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE High Bridge Combined Cycle 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steele Waseca Coop Electric 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Curtis 1000 Inc - 0096-MNBY1 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Taylor Print and Visual Impressions - Byron MN - 0223-MNBY1 182 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rochester Breeder Farms 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeCook Excavating Inc. 71 FTE
NAT-TCR Colonial Wholesale Beverage 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Coal City Fire Protection District 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 0050 - Lacey, Wa 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 118261-Spt-Midtown Sta 18.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chicago Paxton 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cooper Standard Auburn Hills North 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mervis Plastics - Indy 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE SJC - Provisioning 32 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.