Manufacturing · Wisconsin

Saputo Cheese_Lena

Lena, WI · ~601 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Saputo Cheese_Lena runs at 308% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Saputo Cheese_Lena: 10.2 TCR = 308% of Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saputo Cheese_Lena safety composite

Saputo Cheese_Lena scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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_Lena: 8.7 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2017

Saputo Cheese_Lena's TCR rose 2.9 from 8.7 in 2016 to 11.6 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.2 · 308% of ind

  • DART 10.1 DART
  • RANK #156/171
  • PHOTO Bellwether Farms, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 128 inj
  • SIZE ~601 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bellwether Farms, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Saputo Cheese_Lena in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Saputo Cheese_Lena averages 10.2 TCR (308% of the Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Saputo Cheese_Lena TCR series: 2016=8.7 · 2017=11.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Saputo Cheese_Lena falls in its industry

377 Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #156 safest of 171 Manufacturing employers in Wisconsin.

Saputo Cheese_Lena (601 employees, TCR 10.2) 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_Lena
Saputo Cheese_Lena (601 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Saputo Cheese_Lena 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2017 11.6 10.1 71 3 0
2016 8.7 6.3 57 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Lena

377 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 Bellwether Farms, LLC 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lactalis USA 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wisconsin Cheese Group - Monticello Manufucturing & Packaging Facility 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Old Europe Cheese, Inc. 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Molson Coors Beverage Company USA 600 FTE
STATE-SIZE S0469 WATERTOWN REGIONAL MEDICAL CTR 602 FTE
STATE-SIZE BDCH 602 FTE
STATE-SIZE JP Cullen & Sons 599 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saputo Cheese 577 FTE
NAT-TCR KWF Wesley Chapel, FL 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Dubuque IA Depot 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Truyu Clinic DeMers 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Westfield/ SSL MA 10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Uss Posco Industries, Inc 601 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairmont Regional Medical Center 601 FTE
NAT-SIZE VTI Architectural Wood Products Holstein 601 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlantic Home Care and Hospice 601 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: 2017, 2016. 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.