Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing · South Dakota

Pollock, SD

Pollock, SD · ~40 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pollock, SD runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Pollock, SD: 3.0 TCR = 92% of Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pollock, SD safety composite

Pollock, SD scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

−4.9

2017→2021

Pollock, SD injury rate improved

Pollock, SD's TCR fell 4.9 from 7.3 in 2017 to 2.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.3 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Pollock, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #2/10
  • PHOTO Ingredients - DC - C…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ingredients - DC - Cheese- Chili WI (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pollock, SD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pollock, SD averages 3.0 TCR (92% 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

Pollock, SD TCR series: 2017=7.3 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Pollock, SD falls in its industry

377 Cheese, natural (except cottag establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 10 Cheese, natural (except cottag employers in South Dakota.

Pollock, SD (40 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Pollock, SD
Pollock, SD (40 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Pollock, SD has fewer 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 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2017 7.3 7.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · SD · Pollock

377 Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 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 Ingredients - DC - Cheese- Chili WI 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Paige 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Widmer's Cheese Cellars, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foremost Farms USA (Appleton, WI) 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE BCI - Sioux Falls Division 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE SONIFI Health, Inc. Sioux Falls Office 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Border States Electric - Sioux Falls 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aberdeen Store 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ingredients - Cheese - Pollock SD 36 FTE
NAT-TCR Mills River 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Collom & Carney Clinic-Main 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Built 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gulfport Care Center 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Koeze Company 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warwick Office 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sutter Health System Office (470-4600) 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sutter Health System Office (470-3400) 40 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, 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.