Manufacturing · California

Saputo Cheese_Bardsley

Name: Saputo Cheese_Bardsley Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Tulare, CA · ~156 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.2
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Saputo Cheese_Bardsley runs at 187% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Saputo Cheese_Bardsley: 6.2 TCR = 187% of Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saputo Cheese_Bardsley safety composite

Saputo Cheese_Bardsley scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 6.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers
DART rate: F 9.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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_Bardsley: 1.9 → 18.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.47× in 2024

Saputo Cheese_Bardsley's TCR rose 16.3 from 1.9 in 2016 to 18.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 187% of ind

DART 9.1 DART
RANK #23/36
PHOTO Lake Norden Cheese
BOOK 5y book
INJ 27 inj
SIZE ~156 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lake Norden Cheese (0.0 TCR gap)

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Imperia Foods

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What this shows Saputo Cheese_Bardsley averages 6.2 TCR (187% of the Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Saputo Cheese_Bardsley TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2018=5.2 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=18.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Saputo Cheese_Bardsley falls in its industry

377 Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 36 Manufacturing employers in California.

Saputo Cheese_Bardsley (156 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Saputo Cheese_Bardsley has more employees than the 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
2024	18.2	9.1	2
2023	3.3	2.4	4
2022	2.5	1.0	5
2018	5.2	4.3	12
2016	1.9	0.0	4

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · CA · Tulare

377 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Lake Norden Cheese	LAKE NORDEN, SD	6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Saputo Cheese_Newman	NEWMAN, CA	6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Imperia Foods - Fall Creek	FALL CREEK, WI	6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ledgeview	GREEN BAY, WI	6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Bud of California Celery	SALINAS	156 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Fresh Foods, Inc.	KING CITY	156 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Villa Park Strathmore	STRATHMORE	156 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Packing Plant	SELMA	156 FTE
CITY-NEAR	United Ag Personnel Management Inc.	Tulare	8,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Cal Enterprise Labor Solutions, Inc.	Tulare	5,974 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Golden State Ag Services, Inc.	Tulare	5,846 FTE
CITY-NEAR	United Labor Services, Inc.	Tulare	2,845 FTE
NAT-TCR	Eastern Fisheries	New Bedford, MA	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Walbro LLC	Cass City, MI	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	443024-Little Falls \| NY \| 443024	St Johnsville, NY	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Fort Wayne Bakery	Fort Wayne, IN	6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Portland, PA	Portland, PA	156 FTE
NAT-SIZE	MPP - Falls Creek	Falls Creek, PA	156 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cambridge Pavers - Lyndhurst	Lyndhurst, NJ	156 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Rudy Luther Toyota	Golden Valley, MN	156 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, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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