Cheese, cottage, manufacturing · California

Saputo Dairy Foods

Name: Saputo Dairy Foods Workplace Safety Data
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Tulare, CA · ~139 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Saputo Dairy Foods runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese, cottage, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Saputo Dairy Foods: 3.5 TCR = 106% of Cheese, cottage, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saputo Dairy Foods safety composite

Saputo Dairy Foods scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers
DART rate: A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Saputo Dairy Foods held a steady TCR band

Saputo Dairy Foods's TCR held near 0.2 from 3.2 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.2 · 2017=4.3 · 2019=3.5 · 2022=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311511 · Tulare, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 106% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #13/38
PHOTO 056-PL001
BOOK 4y book
INJ 19 inj
SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 056-PL001 (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Saputo Dairy Foods averages 3.5 TCR (106% of the Cheese, cottage, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Saputo Dairy Foods TCR series: 2016=3.2 · 2017=4.3 · 2019=3.5 · 2022=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Saputo Dairy Foods falls in its industry

457 Cheese, cottage, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 38 Cheese, cottage, manufacturin employers in California.

Saputo Dairy Foods (139 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Saputo Dairy Foods has fewer employees than the Cheese, cottage, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2022	3.0	0.0	4
2019	3.5	3.5	5
2017	4.3	4.3	6
2016	3.2	1.6	4

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · CA · Tulare

457 Cheese, cottage, 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	056-PL001	LIVONIA, MI	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Crystal Creamery, Inc dba Humboldt Creamery, Inc	FORTUNA, CA	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	K052-M001	INDIANAPOLIS, IN	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hiland Dairy Foods-Chandler, Ok	CHANDLER, OK	3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	PV Farming Operations, LLC	WATSONVILLE	139 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SVL - 01	SUSANVILLE	139 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Alexander Labor Inc	OXNARD	139 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CA-Antelope Valley S/C	LANCASTER	139 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	Welsh	Philadelphia, PA	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	ASMC-CAS St 10	Indiana, PA	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Heubel Material Handling, Inc./Earth City MO	Earth City, MO	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ellsworth Construction	Tulsa, OK	3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Southview Design	Mendota Heights, MN	139 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Agfa Corporation - Field Service	Elmwood Park, NJ	139 FTE
NAT-SIZE	55807 Bergen County	Elmwood Park, NJ	139 FTE
NAT-SIZE	ACTS Retirement-Life Communities- Buckingham's Choice	Adamstown, MD	139 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: 2022, 2019, 2017, 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.