Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · California

Saputo Cheese Newman

Name: Saputo Cheese Newman Workplace Safety Data
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Saputo Cheese 691 Inyo Ave Newman, CA · ~163 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Saputo Cheese Newman runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Saputo Cheese Newman: 3.3 TCR = 99% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saputo Cheese Newman safety composite

Saputo Cheese Newman scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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).

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

Saputo Cheese Newman held a steady TCR band

Saputo Cheese Newman's TCR held near 0.1 from 3.7 in 2022 to 3.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.7 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Saputo Cheese 691 Inyo Ave Newman, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 99% of ind

DART 3.8 DART
RANK #8/36
PHOTO Saputo Inc.
BOOK 3y book
INJ 17 inj
SIZE ~163 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Saputo Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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3.3
Saputo Inc.

3.3
Land O Lakes S

3.3
DDN Plant

3.2
Berner Foods -

3.2

What this shows Saputo Cheese Newman averages 3.3 TCR (99% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Saputo Cheese Newman TCR series: 2022=3.7 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Saputo Cheese Newman falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 36 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in California.

Saputo Cheese Newman (163 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Saputo Cheese Newman has more 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
2024	3.8	3.8	7
2023	2.3	1.7	4
2022	3.7	1.2	6

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · CA · Saputo Cheese 691 Inyo Ave Newman

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Saputo Inc.	SOUTH GATE, CA	3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	DDN Plant	CLINTON, MO	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Berner Foods - Dakota	DAKOTA, IL	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Land O Lakes Spencer	SPENCER, WI	3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Andersen & Sons Shelling	VINA	163 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Legacy	DINUBA	163 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hughson Nut, Inc - Livingston Facility	LIVINGSTON	163 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CORONADO LABOR CONTRACTING, Inc.	DELANO	163 FTE
NAT-TCR	Holler	Gatlinburg, TN	3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Baltimore (Chesapeake)	Baltimore, MD	3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	EStyle Corp LLC	Jacksonville, FL	3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	LNH- Indianapolis	Plainfield, IN	3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	City of Raleigh- Solid Waste Services	Raleigh, NC	163 FTE
NAT-SIZE	MM Packaging PR - Guaynabo	Guaynabo, PR	163 FTE
NAT-SIZE	EMD Performance Materials Branchburg NJ	Somerville, NJ	163 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Roman Electric Co., Inc.	West Allis, WI	163 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. 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.