Employer · Minnesota

Performance Northland Cheese - 1036

Name: Performance Northland Cheese - 1036 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Rice, MN · ~113 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.3
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Performance Northland Cheese - 1036 runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

Performance Northland Cheese - 1036: 2.3 TCR = 106% of industry BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Performance Northland Cheese - 1036 safety composite

Performance Northland Cheese - 1036 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% 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).

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers
DART rate: B 1.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

Performance Northland Cheese - 1036: 2.2 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2021

Performance Northland Cheese - 1036's TCR rose 1.2 from 2.2 in 2019 to 3.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Rice, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 106% of ind

DART 1.3 DART
RANK #4/38
PHOTO Mobile AL
BOOK 3y book
INJ 10 inj
SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mobile AL (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.3
Mobile AL

2.3
Marquez Brothe

2.3
Hawaii Branch

2.3
AWG, Southaven

2.3

What this shows Performance Northland Cheese - 1036 averages 2.3 TCR (106% of the industry BLS benchmark).

Performance Northland Cheese - 1036 TCR series: 2019=2.2 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=3.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Performance Northland Cheese - 1036 falls in its industry

1,651 industry establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 38 industry employers in Minnesota.

Performance Northland Cheese - 1036 (113 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Performance Northland Cheese - 1036 has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2021	3.4	1.3	5
2020	1.5	1.5	2
2019	2.2	1.4	3

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · MN · Rice

1,651 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 11 employers in Rice, MN · 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	Mobile AL	MOBILE, AL	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Marquez Brothers International, Inc	SAN JOSE, CA	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hawaii Branch	HONOLULU, HI	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	AWG, Southaven	SOUTHAVEN, MS	2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	The Boldt Company - Rochester, MN	ROCHESTER	113 FTE
STATE-SIZE	MPM - Mankato	MANKATO	113 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Southern Minnesota Construction	MANKATO	113 FTE
STATE-SIZE	MN Office	MENDOTA HEIGHTS	113 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Foodservice Minnesota - 1016	Rice	234 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Performance Minnesota - 1016	Rice	173 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Virnig Manufacturing Rice MN	Rice	136 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Foodservice Northland Cheese - 1036	Rice	122 FTE
NAT-TCR	Acupac Packaging	Mahwah, NJ	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Allentown, PA HVAC	Allentown, PA	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	US124: Springfield 333 - SG	Springfield, MO	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Dantzler Jax	Jacksonville, FL	2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Performance Pacific NW - 1017	Portland, OR	113 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Laurels of Mt Vernon	Mt Vernon, OH	113 FTE
NAT-SIZE	US192: N. Virginia 564 - SG	Dulles, VA	113 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Goodier Cosmetics	Dallas, TX	113 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. 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.