Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · California

Saputo Paige

Tulare, CA · ~642 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Saputo Paige runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Saputo Paige: 3.0 TCR = 92% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saputo Paige safety composite

Saputo Paige scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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)
B 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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 Paige: 2.9 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.11× in 2024

Saputo Paige's TCR rose 0.9 from 2.9 in 2022 to 3.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #7/36
  • PHOTO Ingredients - DC - C…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 55 inj
  • SIZE ~642 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ingredients - DC - Cheese- Chili WI (0.0 TCR gap)

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Saputo Paige in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Saputo Paige averages 3.0 TCR (92% 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 Paige TCR series: 2022=2.9 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Saputo Paige falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 76% 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 #7 safest of 36 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in California.

Saputo Paige (642 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Paige
Saputo Paige (642 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Saputo Paige 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 3.9 3.3 30 0 0
2023 2.3 1.5 12 3 0
2022 2.9 1.8 13 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · CA · Tulare

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Ingredients - DC - Cheese- Chili WI 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pollock, SD 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foremost Farms USA (Appleton, WI) 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zumbrota, MN 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE DEL VALLE FARM LABOR SERVICES INC 642 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHC Consulting, LLC 642 FTE
STATE-SIZE California City Correctional Facility 642 FTE
STATE-SIZE Santos Montemayor FLC, Inc 643 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Ag Personnel Management Inc. 8,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cal Enterprise Labor Solutions, Inc. 5,974 FTE
CITY-NEAR Golden State Ag Services, Inc. 5,846 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Labor Services, Inc. 2,845 FTE
NAT-TCR St. Mary's Rao Pavilion 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Miller Flooring Company 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Stainless Specialists 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cannon Construction 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Siemens Industry Inc 642 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haemonetics - Boston 642 FTE
NAT-SIZE Public Health & Human Services 642 FTE
NAT-SIZE Somerset 642 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. 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.