Acidophilus milk manufacturing · North Carolina

SAputo Cheese USA Inc

Troy, NC · ~154 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SAputo Cheese USA Inc runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Acidophilus milk manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

SAputo Cheese USA Inc: 4.8 TCR = 144% of Acidophilus milk manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SAputo Cheese USA Inc safety composite

SAputo Cheese USA Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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

−3.0

2022→2024

SAputo Cheese USA Inc injury rate improved

SAputo Cheese USA Inc's TCR fell 3.0 from 4.9 in 2022 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.9 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311511 · Troy, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 144% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #10/10
  • PHOTO Superior Dairy
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~154 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Superior Dairy (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 4.8 TCR (144% of the Acidophilus milk 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: 2022=4.9 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where SAputo Cheese USA Inc falls in its industry

457 Acidophilus milk manufacturing establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 10 Acidophilus milk manufacturing employers in North Carolina.

SAputo Cheese USA Inc (154 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 Inc
SAputo Cheese USA Inc (154 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

SAputo Cheese USA Inc has more employees than the Acidophilus milk manufacturing median and a higher 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 1.9 0.6 3 0 0
2023 7.5 0.7 11 0 0
2022 4.9 0.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · NC · Troy

457 Acidophilus milk manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 19 employers in Troy, NC · 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 Superior Dairy 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HP Hood - Batavia 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Upstate Farms Cultured Products LLC 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR HP Hood LLC 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE J&J Snack Foods--Holly Ridge, NC 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE American & Efird Gastonia Plant 20 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seaboard Lumber Mill 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mount Holly Plant 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6728-00030023-14 505 FTE
CITY-NEAR Montgomery Memorial Hospital 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6728-00030023-13 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR McRae Footwear Finishing/Shipping 139 FTE
NAT-TCR EnovaPremier of Alabama LLC 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Channellock Inc. Plant 1 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR D.R. Horton, Inc. - Knoxville 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Z.T. Distribution, Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Gardens at Camp Hill 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE ASGCO Manufacturing Inc. 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE AOS staffing office 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bryant Group Inc. 154 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.