Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · New Mexico

Saputo Cheese (Las Cruces)

Las Cruces, NM · ~376 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Saputo Cheese (Las Cruces) runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Saputo Cheese (Las Cruces): 5.1 TCR = 155% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saputo Cheese (Las Cruces) safety composite

Saputo Cheese (Las Cruces) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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

−6.1

2021→2024

Saputo Cheese (Las Cruces) injury rate improved

Saputo Cheese (Las Cruces)'s TCR fell 6.1 from 8.7 in 2021 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=8.7 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Las Cruces, NM ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 155% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK P48
  • PHOTO MDS Foods, Inc. - Tu…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 61 inj
  • SIZE ~376 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MDS Foods, Inc. - Tullahoma Location (0.0 TCR gap)

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Saputo Cheese (Las Cruces) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Saputo Cheese (Las Cruces) averages 5.1 TCR (155% 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 (Las Cruces) TCR series: 2021=8.7 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Saputo Cheese (Las Cruces) falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Saputo Cheese (Las Cruces) (376 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 (Las Cruces)
Saputo Cheese (Las Cruces) (376 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Saputo Cheese (Las Cruces) 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
2024 2.6 1.5 10 2 0
2023 2.8 0.2 11 1 0
2022 6.3 4.9 23 0 0
2021 8.7 1.0 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · NM · Las Cruces

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,241 rated employers in New Mexico with headcount on file · 151 employers in Las Cruces, NM · 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 MDS Foods, Inc. - Tullahoma Location 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR AFP Visalia 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agropur - Luxemburg 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 850 375 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3731 377 FTE
STATE-SIZE Albany Molecular Research, Inc. 373 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 5430 379 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Mexico State University 6,466 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHC-LAS CRUCES INC 1,408 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mountain View Regional Medical Center 1,400 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Medical Center 1,306 FTE
NAT-TCR Pegasus Industries - Chillicothe 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Arbor Trace 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR North America : Thomas Lumber 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cresco Operations - Indiantown, FL 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Great Lakes Cheese of Wausau, Wisconsin, Inc. 376 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kei-Ai Los Angeles Healthcare Center 376 FTE
NAT-SIZE MCF4 Solutions, LLC 376 FTE
NAT-SIZE HVA - Central 376 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.