Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Saputo Cheese Almena

Almena, WI · ~203 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Saputo Cheese Almena runs at 289% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Saputo Cheese Almena: 9.5 TCR = 289% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saputo Cheese Almena safety composite

Saputo Cheese Almena scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Saputo Cheese Almena: 7.3 → 14.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 14.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2020

Saputo Cheese Almena's TCR rose 6.9 from 7.3 in 2016 to 14.2 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Almena, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.5 · 289% of ind

  • DART 11.4 DART
  • RANK #148/171
  • PHOTO Almena
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 94 inj
  • SIZE ~203 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Almena (0.0 TCR gap)

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Saputo Cheese Almena in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Saputo Cheese Almena averages 9.5 TCR (289% 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

Saputo Cheese Almena TCR series: 2016=7.3 · 2017=9.4 · 2018=10.2 · 2019=6.7 · 2020=14.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Saputo Cheese Almena falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #148 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Saputo Cheese Almena (203 employees, TCR 9.5) 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 Saputo Cheese Almena
Saputo Cheese Almena (203 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Saputo Cheese Almena has more 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
2020 14.2 11.4 35 1 0
2019 6.7 5.6 16 2 0
2018 10.2 7.3 24 1 0
2017 9.4 4.7 11 1 0
2016 7.3 5.5 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Almena

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 7 employers in Almena, WI · 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 Almena 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Cheese 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gardena Distribution Center 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yancey's Fancy/Main Road Location 9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Perry Way Foods, LLC 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burlington 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE Warren Packaging Company 203 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lucas Milhaupt 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Ag Cooperative - Office 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Ag Cooperative - Almena Agronomy 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Synergy Almena C-store 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Synergy Community Cooperative 16 FTE
NAT-TCR Oklahoma Methodist Manor 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1969-PW1 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR General Healthcare Resources LLC - 4 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 8301 Carley 9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Omni Mandalay Hotel 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE Van Buren 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE SMCTD_North Base Bus Transportation 203 FTE
NAT-SIZE Matsu - Alabama 203 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.