Manufacturing · California

Saputo Cheese_South Gate

South Gate, CA · ~283 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Saputo Cheese_South Gate runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Saputo Cheese_South Gate: 4.3 TCR = 131% of Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saputo Cheese_South Gate safety composite

Saputo Cheese_South Gate scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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

−5.4

2016→2019

Saputo Cheese_South Gate injury rate improved

Saputo Cheese_South Gate's TCR fell 5.4 from 7.0 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.0 · 2019=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · South Gate, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 131% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #16/36
  • PHOTO Whitehall East
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~283 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Whitehall East (0.0 TCR gap)

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Saputo Cheese_South Gate in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Saputo Cheese_South Gate averages 4.3 TCR (131% of the Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Saputo Cheese_South Gate TCR series: 2016=7 · 2019=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Saputo Cheese_South Gate falls in its industry

377 Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 36 Manufacturing employers in California.

Saputo Cheese_South Gate (283 employees, TCR 4.3) 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_South Gate
Saputo Cheese_South Gate (283 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Saputo Cheese_South Gate has more employees than the Manufacturing median and a lower 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
2019 1.6 1.4 6 0 0
2016 7.0 6.0 22 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · CA · South Gate

377 Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 75 employers in South Gate, CA · 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 Whitehall East 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Laubscher Cheese Company 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR V&V Supremo Foods, Inc. - Browntown 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedar Valley Cheese 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Silent Springs LLC 283 FTE
STATE-SIZE DCOR LLC 283 FTE
STATE-SIZE Warnock Food Products Inc. 283 FTE
STATE-SIZE Astro Pak Corporation 283 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-027 908 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Gate, CA - 5650 Southern 792 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3180 587 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3180 573 FTE
NAT-TCR Clarkston, Mi 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0315 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6836-MEM 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR KS Energy Services (Northern IL) 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE CPGRMOEO 283 FTE
NAT-SIZE Matthews International Corporation 283 FTE
NAT-SIZE Park Lane Ala Moana 283 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ritz Carlton Residences Waikiki 283 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: 2019, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.