Manufacturing · Wisconsin

Saputo Cheese-Black Creek

Black Creek, WI · ~93 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Saputo Cheese-Black Creek runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Saputo Cheese-Black Creek: 5.7 TCR = 173% of Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saputo Cheese-Black Creek safety composite

Saputo Cheese-Black Creek scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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-Black Creek: 4.5 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2021

Saputo Cheese-Black Creek's TCR rose 2.4 from 4.5 in 2020 to 6.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 173% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #89/171
  • PHOTO Lactalis Heritage Da…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lactalis Heritage Dairy (0.0 TCR gap)

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Saputo Cheese-Black Creek in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Saputo Cheese-Black Creek averages 5.7 TCR (173% of the Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Saputo Cheese-Black Creek TCR series: 2020=4.5 · 2021=6.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Saputo Cheese-Black Creek falls in its industry

377 Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 42% 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 #89 safest of 171 Manufacturing employers in Wisconsin.

Saputo Cheese-Black Creek (93 employees, TCR 5.7) 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-Black Creek
Saputo Cheese-Black Creek (93 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Saputo Cheese-Black Creek has fewer employees than the Manufacturing 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
2021 6.9 3.5 5 1 0
2020 4.5 1.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Black Creek

377 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Lactalis Heritage Dairy 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nuestro Queso Hispanic Cheese Makers 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PINE RIVER PRE-PACK, INC 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bunker Hill Cheese Company LLC 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Boldt Company - Stevens Point, WI 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE PBBS Equipment Corporation - Corporate 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gene Frederickson Trucking Inc 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE GLK Foods, LLC 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saputo - Black Creek 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ralph's Hardwood Floor Co., Inc. 43 FTE
NAT-TCR Avivo - 8 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR ABC Roswell 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Virginia Linen Service Inc 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Human Technologies Binghamton 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dogget Ford 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kionix Inc. 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elster American Meters 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store #607 93 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. 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.