Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Saputo - Black Creek

Name: Saputo - Black Creek Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Black Creek, WI · ~99 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Saputo - Black Creek runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Saputo - Black Creek: 4.7 TCR = 141% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saputo - Black Creek safety composite

Saputo - Black Creek scores strongest on dart rate (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).

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 4.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers
DART rate: B 1.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−3.0

2016→2017

Saputo - Black Creek injury rate improved

Saputo - Black Creek's TCR fell 3.0 from 6.2 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.2 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.2 · 2017=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Black Creek, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 141% of ind

DART 1.1 DART
RANK #71/171
PHOTO AFP New Holland
BOOK 2y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AFP New Holland (0.0 TCR gap)

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4.7
AFP New Hollan

4.7
Foremost Farms

4.6
MWC, LLC

4.6
Arla Foods Hol

4.6

What this shows Saputo - Black Creek averages 4.7 TCR (141% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Saputo - Black Creek TCR series: 2016=6.2 · 2017=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Saputo - Black Creek falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #71 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Saputo - Black Creek (99 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Saputo - Black Creek has fewer employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu 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
2017	3.1	1.1	3	0	0
2016	6.2	6.2	6	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Black Creek

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 3 employers in Black Creek, WI · 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	AFP New Holland	NEW HOLLAND, PA	4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Foremost Farms USA (Clayton, WI)	CLAYTON, WI	4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	MWC, LLC	ST. JOHNS, MI	4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Arla Foods Hollandtown	KAUKAUNA, WI	4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Dairy Farm	GREENLEAF	99 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Madison/Fen Oak	MADISON	99 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Saputo Cheese Reedsburg	REEDSBURG	99 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Culinarte Marketing Group, LLC	GREEN BAY	99 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Saputo Cheese-Black Creek	Black Creek	93 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ralph's Hardwood Floor Co., Inc.	Black Creek	43 FTE
NAT-TCR	Columbia Distributing Springfield	Springfield, OR	4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Maples Farm & Garden Center	Middletown, NY	4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Legends - Indy Speedway	Indianapolis, IN	4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hagerstown (Mdwil)	Williamsport, MD	4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	N and R of Troy LLC	Troy, MO	99 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Kraemer Farms LLC	Mount Angel, OR	99 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Columbia Distributing Bend	Bend, OR	99 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Times Supermarket - Kamehameha	Honolulu, HI	99 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: 2017, 2016. 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.