Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · California

Saputo Cheese USA Inc.

Newman, CA · ~151 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Saputo Cheese USA Inc. runs at 266% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Saputo Cheese USA Inc.: 8.8 TCR = 266% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saputo Cheese USA Inc. safety composite

Saputo Cheese USA Inc. 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.91 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 USA Inc.: 4.6 → 12.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 12.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.24× in 2021

Saputo Cheese USA Inc.'s TCR rose 8.3 from 4.6 in 2020 to 12.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Newman, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 266% of ind

  • DART 10.9 DART
  • RANK #31/36
  • PHOTO New Denmark
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~151 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Denmark (0.0 TCR gap)

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Saputo Cheese USA Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Saputo Cheese USA Inc. averages 8.8 TCR (266% 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 USA Inc. TCR series: 2020=4.6 · 2021=12.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Saputo Cheese USA Inc. falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 36 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in California.

Saputo Cheese USA Inc. (151 employees, TCR 8.8) 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 USA Inc.
Saputo Cheese USA Inc. (151 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Saputo Cheese USA Inc. 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
2021 12.9 10.9 6 13 0
2020 4.6 1.3 2 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · CA · Newman

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 15 employers in Newman, 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 New Denmark 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leprino Foods West 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Emmi Roth USA - Stoughton 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Cloud 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Delta Farm Packing 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Truitt Oilfield Maintenance Corp. 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chino Base - Bld: 0842 - 15 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lodi Pump and Irrigation, LLC 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saputo Cheese_Newman 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR DMB Packing Corp. / The DiMare Company 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR San Luis Care Center 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nob Hill 601-Newman 62 FTE
NAT-TCR 879 Oakbrook Mall 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Modern Forge Tennessee LLC 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Republic Services of Davie 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Owens & Minor RM DMC 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nelson Tree Service, LLC 464 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dhaliwal Labs LLC 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harper Limbach - Tampa 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE IES Communications, LLC - Strategic Accounts 151 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.