Cheese spreads manufacturing · Wisconsin

Saputo Cheese

Lena, WI · ~577 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Saputo Cheese runs at 287% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese spreads manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Saputo Cheese: 9.5 TCR = 287% of Cheese spreads manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saputo Cheese safety composite

Saputo Cheese scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.7

2018→2023

Saputo Cheese injury rate improved

Saputo Cheese's TCR fell 7.7 from 9.4 in 2018 to 1.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=9.4 · 2019=10.1 · 2020=13.1 · 2021=14.1 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.5 · 287% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #146/171
  • PHOTO Almena
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 296 inj
  • SIZE ~577 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Almena (0.0 TCR gap)

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Saputo Cheese in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Saputo Cheese averages 9.5 TCR (287% of the Cheese spreads manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Saputo Cheese TCR series: 2018=9.4 · 2019=10.1 · 2020=13.1 · 2021=14.1 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Saputo Cheese falls in its industry

377 Cheese spreads manufacturing establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #146 safest of 171 Cheese spreads manufacturing employers in Wisconsin.

Saputo Cheese (577 employees, TCR 9.5) 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
Saputo Cheese (577 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Saputo Cheese has more employees than the Cheese spreads manufacturing 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
2023 1.8 1.8 8 0 0
2022 8.3 5.4 40 2 0
2021 14.1 10.2 73 4 0
2020 13.1 11.0 64 18 0
2019 10.1 7.8 61 5 0
2018 9.4 6.4 50 12 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Lena

377 Cheese spreads manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Almena 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vermont Creamery 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Cheese Almena 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR White Hill 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lunda Construction 578 FTE
STATE-SIZE WI Distribution Center 576 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1855-WIMIL103 576 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manufacturing : Kiel 579 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saputo Cheese_Lena 601 FTE
NAT-TCR Ernst Conservation Seeds Inc 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Staten Island U Hosp North 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #0744 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Willowbrook of Marshall 9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2039-Kansas City Royals 577 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phillips and Jordan Incorporated 577 FTE
NAT-SIZE CSC El Paso 577 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lincoln Terminal - DOT 577 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: 2023, 2022, 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.