Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · California

Saputo Inc.

South Gate, CA · ~338 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Saputo Inc. runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Saputo Inc.: 3.3 TCR = 99% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saputo Inc. safety composite

Saputo Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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 Inc.: 2.7 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2024

Saputo Inc.'s TCR rose 0.6 from 2.7 in 2021 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · South Gate, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 99% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #9/36
  • PHOTO Land O Lakes Spencer
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~338 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Land O Lakes Spencer (0.0 TCR gap)

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Saputo Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Saputo Inc. averages 3.3 TCR (99% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Saputo Inc. TCR series: 2021=2.7 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Saputo Inc. falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 72% 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 #9 safest of 36 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in California.

Saputo Inc. (338 employees, TCR 3.3) 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 Inc.
Saputo Inc. (338 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Saputo Inc. has more employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu 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
2024 3.3 3.0 13 0 0
2023 2.9 2.1 11 0 0
2022 4.3 3.6 13 0 0
2021 2.7 0.3 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · CA · South Gate

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) 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 Land O Lakes Spencer 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Cheese Newman 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DDN Plant 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Berner Foods - Dakota 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Porto's Bakery Northridge, Inc 338 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oxnard Plant 338 FTE
STATE-SIZE Captek Cerritos 338 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2767 - Oakland-Emeryville 338 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 Gordon Flesch Company (MKE) 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Denali Princess Wilderness Lodge 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Warehouse Westfield IN 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tosh Farms 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trillium Family Services Parry Center 338 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rich Products Brunswick 338 FTE
NAT-SIZE Global Plastics 338 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Orthopedic Hospital of Lutheran 338 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, 2021. 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.