Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing · Wisconsin

Saputo Cheese USA, Inc.

Belmont, WI · ~240 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Saputo Cheese USA, Inc. runs at 228% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Saputo Cheese USA, Inc.: 7.5 TCR = 228% of Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y 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 10%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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.: 2.6 → 10.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 12.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2021

Saputo Cheese USA, Inc.'s TCR rose 7.6 from 2.6 in 2018 to 10.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 12.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Belmont, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 228% of ind

  • DART 8.5 DART
  • RANK #114/171
  • PHOTO Klondike Cheese Co.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 62 inj
  • SIZE ~240 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Klondike Cheese Co. (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 7.5 TCR (228% of the Cheese, natural (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: 2018=2.6 · 2019=5 · 2020=12.3 · 2021=10.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Saputo Cheese USA, Inc. falls in its industry

377 Cheese, natural (except cottag establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #114 safest of 171 Cheese, natural (except cottag employers in Wisconsin.

Saputo Cheese USA, Inc. (240 employees, TCR 7.5) 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. (240 employees, TCR 7.5) 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, natural (except cottage cheese), 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 10.2 8.5 18 0 0
2020 12.3 8.7 23 1 0
2019 5.0 3.5 13 0 0
2018 2.6 2.3 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Belmont

377 Cheese, natural (except cottage cheese), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 5 employers in Belmont, WI · 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 Klondike Cheese Co. 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whitehall Specialties - Plant 2 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BelGioioso Cheese - Glenville 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cellars at Jasper Hill 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Penda 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial Plastics Kenosha LLC 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cardinal LG - Amery LG 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE GPC 240 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lactalis USA 316 FTE
CITY-NEAR Betin Inc - Belmont 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lactalis American Group Inc. - Belmont 272 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saputo Cheese USA Inc Belmont 188 FTE
NAT-TCR Markle Health and Rehabilitation 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kerry/Fleischmann's Vinegar - Nixa 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Orlando South 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Health and Rehab 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE KTA Super Stores 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE Energy Homes 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE RTP 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Energy Homes of Texas 240 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, 2019, 2018. 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.