Cheese, cottage, manufacturing · California

Saputo Cheese USA

Tulare, CA · ~159 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Saputo Cheese USA runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cheese, cottage, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Saputo Cheese USA: 1.5 TCR = 46% of Cheese, cottage, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saputo Cheese USA safety composite

Saputo Cheese USA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−0.7

2023→2024

Saputo Cheese USA injury rate improved

Saputo Cheese USA's TCR fell 0.7 from 1.9 in 2023 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.9 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311511 · Tulare, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 46% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #3/38
  • PHOTO Daisy Brand, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~159 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Daisy Brand, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Saputo Cheese USA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Saputo Cheese USA averages 1.5 TCR (46% of the Cheese, cottage, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Saputo Cheese USA TCR series: 2023=1.9 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Saputo Cheese USA falls in its industry

457 Cheese, cottage, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 38 Cheese, cottage, manufacturin employers in California.

Saputo Cheese USA (159 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Saputo Cheese USA
Saputo Cheese USA (159 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Saputo Cheese USA has more employees than the Cheese, cottage, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 1.2 1.2 2 0 0
2023 1.9 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · CA · Tulare

457 Cheese, cottage, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 130 employers in Tulare, CA · 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 Daisy Brand, LLC 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chobani-New Berlin 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Mills Reed City Plant 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR M754-M001 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE REDDING SERVICE CENTER-OFFICE 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Solar4America Technology, Inc. 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Santa Ana Creek Development dba Mark Company 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE JFShea Construction-Walnut 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Ag Personnel Management Inc. 8,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cal Enterprise Labor Solutions, Inc. 5,974 FTE
CITY-NEAR Golden State Ag Services, Inc. 5,846 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Labor Services, Inc. 2,845 FTE
NAT-TCR OHI Greenhouse LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Contract Flooring & Interior Services, INC. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairfield Inn & Suites Winston-Salem Downtown 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gaffin Industrial Services, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2217 - Ft Wayne Glenbrook 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bridges Health 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norfolk Bakery 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE 16 Saw Mill River Road 159 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. 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.