Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

AFP Clear Lake

Clear Lake, WI · ~169 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AFP Clear Lake runs at 271% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

AFP Clear Lake: 8.9 TCR = 271% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AFP Clear Lake safety composite

AFP Clear Lake scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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).

F

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

AFP Clear Lake: 5.7 → 12.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2024

AFP Clear Lake's TCR rose 6.4 from 5.7 in 2023 to 12.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Clear Lake, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 271% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #142/171
  • PHOTO West Main
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~169 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Main (0.0 TCR gap)

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AFP Clear Lake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AFP Clear Lake averages 8.9 TCR (271% 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

AFP Clear Lake TCR series: 2023=5.7 · 2024=12.1 · BLS 3.3

Where AFP Clear Lake falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #142 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

AFP Clear Lake (169 employees, TCR 8.9) 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 AFP Clear Lake
AFP Clear Lake (169 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

AFP Clear Lake has more employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu median and a higher 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 12.1 5.2 10 11 0
2023 5.7 2.9 8 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Clear Lake

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 6 employers in Clear Lake, WI · 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 West Main 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Cloud 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bongards Creameries Perham 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Cheese_Waupun 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Heartland Farms, Incorporated 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Foremost Farms USA (Appleton, WI) 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wisconsin Paperboard Grief (former Caraustar Industries, Inc. 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Suttle-Straus 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clear Lake Oxbo 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR AFP advanced food products llc 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR Specialty Coating Systems Clear Lake 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR UniPunch Products, Inc. 43 FTE
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - HOU8 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Edelbrock Group, LLC 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR TTN 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR EarthRoamer 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Niles Precision Company 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deerfield Beach Health and Rehabilitation Center 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Residence at Timber Pines 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE NHC HealthCare, Garden City 169 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. 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.