Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Illinois

Saputo Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire, IL · ~178 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Saputo Lincolnshire runs at 20% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Saputo Lincolnshire: 0.7 TCR = 20% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saputo Lincolnshire safety composite

Saputo Lincolnshire scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% 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).

B

84/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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 Lincolnshire: 0.0 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Saputo Lincolnshire's TCR rose 1.3 from 0.0 in 2019 to 1.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Lincolnshire, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 20% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO R and D / Engineerin…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~178 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: R and D / Engineering : Elkhart Lake (0.0 TCR gap)

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Saputo Lincolnshire in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Saputo Lincolnshire averages 0.7 TCR (20% 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 Lincolnshire TCR series: 2019=0 · 2021=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Saputo Lincolnshire falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 8 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Illinois.

Saputo Lincolnshire (178 employees, TCR 0.7) 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 Lincolnshire
Saputo Lincolnshire (178 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Saputo Lincolnshire 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
2021 1.3 0.0 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · IL · Lincolnshire

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 53 employers in Lincolnshire, IL · 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 R and D / Engineering : Elkhart Lake 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ingredients - DC - Cheese- Dalbo MN 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR K177-M001 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leprino Foods Company, Denver 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wyffels Hybrids 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lendlease Chicago 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE PAXXUS 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE GOLD EAGLE COMPANY 178 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6894-68940034 3,583 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6894-68940020 1,175 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lincolnshire 1,039 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL151 981 FTE
NAT-TCR Orlando Call Center 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR British Air-Logan* 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 4818-PA10 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Jvic Catalyst 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hampstead Hospital 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE K252-M001 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohio Alpha EMC 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coastal Specialty Forest Products 178 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: 2021, 2019. 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.