Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Minnesota

Paynesville

Paynesville, MN · ~88 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Paynesville runs at 276% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Paynesville: 9.1 TCR = 276% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paynesville safety composite

Paynesville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Paynesville: 2.5 → 16.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 16.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2024

Paynesville's TCR rose 13.6 from 2.5 in 2019 to 16.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 276% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #22/24
  • PHOTO Agri-Mark McCadam Ch…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Agri-Mark McCadam Cheese (0.1 TCR gap)

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Paynesville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paynesville averages 9.1 TCR (276% 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

Paynesville TCR series: 2019=2.5 · 2020=6.1 · 2021=8.5 · 2022=6 · 2023=15.4 · 2024=16.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Paynesville falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #22 safest of 24 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Minnesota.

Paynesville (88 employees, TCR 9.1) 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 Paynesville
Paynesville (88 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Paynesville 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
2024 16.1 7.1 11 5 0
2023 15.4 9.2 15 0 0
2022 6.0 6.0 5 0 0
2021 8.5 6.0 5 2 0
2020 6.1 6.1 6 0 0
2019 2.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · MN · Paynesville

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 23 employers in Paynesville, 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 Agri-Mark McCadam Cheese 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Cheese_Waupun 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bongards Creameries Perham 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR AFP Clear Lake 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Central Counties Cooperative 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lloyd's Construction Services, Inc. 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lester Building Systems, LLC LP 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cardinal Corporate 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR CentraCare Health Paynesville, Hospital, Clinic, PT, Lab, Business Office 252 FTE
CITY-NEAR CentraCare Health-Paynesville 236 FTE
CITY-NEAR CentraCare Paynesville 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Industries, LLP 125 FTE
NAT-TCR Gay and Robinson, Inc 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Amita Health Alexian Brothers Medical Center 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Robert W Sheckles, Inc. 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Gillette Nursing Home 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nations Roof North, LLC 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE M Watanabe Electrical Contractor Inc 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grasmere Place LLC 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE MSI-Houma 88 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, 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.