Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · New York

Sorrento Lactalis, Inc. South Park Plant

Name: Sorrento Lactalis, Inc. South Park Plant Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Buffalo, NY · ~574 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.9
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Sorrento Lactalis, Inc. South Park Plant runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Sorrento Lactalis, Inc. South Park Plant: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sorrento Lactalis, Inc. South Park Plant safety composite

Sorrento Lactalis, Inc. South Park Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% 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).

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

Sorrento Lactalis, Inc. South Park Plant: 2.1 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2019

Sorrento Lactalis, Inc. South Park Plant's TCR rose 0.5 from 2.1 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Buffalo, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

DART 1.7 DART
RANK #2/22
PHOTO Leprino Foods Co
BOOK 3y book
INJ 31 inj
SIZE ~574 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Leprino Foods Co (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Sorrento Lactalis, Inc. South Park Plant averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Sorrento Lactalis, Inc. South Park Plant TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Sorrento Lactalis, Inc. South Park Plant falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 22 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in New York.

Sorrento Lactalis, Inc. South Park Plant (574 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Sorrento Lactalis, Inc. South Park Plant 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
2019	2.6	1.7	15	0
2018	1.1	1.1	5	1
2016	2.1	0.9	11	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · NY · Buffalo

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 532 employers in Buffalo, NY · 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	Leprino Foods Co	ALLENDALE, MI	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Leprino Foods Company	LEMOORE, CA	1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Leprino Foods	GREELEY, CO	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Foremost Farms - Clayton	CLAYTON, WI	1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Contract Pharmacal Corp. 135	HAUPPAUGE	575 FTE
STATE-SIZE	GOLUB CORP MAIN OFFICE	SCHENECTADY	573 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ADMIN	NEW YORK	575 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NY, Rochester - 800 Lee Rd. (SAS-SS)	ROCHESTER	576 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Buffalo General Hospital	Buffalo	3,556 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercy Hospital of Buffalo	Buffalo	2,379 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WNY Independent Living, Inc.	Buffalo	1,988 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Kaleida Health Oishei Childrens Hospital	Buffalo	1,765 FTE
NAT-TCR	49251s - Sparks Dc	Sparks, NV	1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Megha LLC	New Iberia, LA	1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Go Daddy- AZ	Tempe, AZ	1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	1855-MIDET397	Macomb, MI	1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Swire Coca-Cola of Tempe	Tempe, AZ	574 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bosch Automotive Service Solutions	Owatonna, MN	574 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC - 040	Bruceton Mills, WV	574 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hoffman Structures, Inc.	Portland, OR	574 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, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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