Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Arla Foods Hollandtown

Name: Arla Foods Hollandtown Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Kaukauna, WI · ~213 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.6
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Arla Foods Hollandtown runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Arla Foods Hollandtown: 4.6 TCR = 139% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Arla Foods Hollandtown safety composite

Arla Foods Hollandtown scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% 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).

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 4.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers
DART rate: C 2.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

Arla Foods Hollandtown: 3.2 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2021

Arla Foods Hollandtown's TCR rose 3.2 from 3.2 in 2017 to 6.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Kaukauna, WI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 139% of ind

DART 2.3 DART
RANK #70/171
PHOTO Foremost Farms USA (…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 25 inj
SIZE ~213 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Foremost Farms USA (Clayton, WI) (0.0 TCR gap)

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4.6
Saputo-Levin

4.6
Chili, WI

4.6

What this shows Arla Foods Hollandtown averages 4.6 TCR (139% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Arla Foods Hollandtown TCR series: 2017=3.2 · 2019=4.3 · 2021=6.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Arla Foods Hollandtown falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #70 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Arla Foods Hollandtown (213 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Arla Foods Hollandtown 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
2021	6.4	2.3	12	2
2019	4.3	1.6	6	2
2017	3.2	1.4	7	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Kaukauna

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 71 employers in Kaukauna, WI · 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	Foremost Farms USA (Clayton, WI)	CLAYTON, WI	4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	MWC, LLC	ST. JOHNS, MI	4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Saputo-Levin	TULARE, CA	4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Chili, WI	CHILI, WI	4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Fair Oaks Farms, West Plant	PLEASANT PRAIRIE	213 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Kimberly Clark Corp. Marinette	MARINETTE	213 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Gusmer Enterprises, Inc. - Waupaca	WAUPACA	213 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Vital Plastics, Inc.	BALDWIN	213 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Thilmany Mill	Kaukauna	560 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Bassett Mechanical Corporate Office	Kaukauna	446 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Bassett Mechanical	Kaukauna	435 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Kaukauna location	Kaukauna	299 FTE
NAT-TCR	C Barbershop	Las Vegas, NV	4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Charlottesville 4410	Charlottesville, VA	4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sodexo at Cedarbrook-Allentown	Allentown, PA	4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hunter Panels - Tooele	Tooele, UT	4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Panels Plant	Holland, MI	213 FTE
NAT-SIZE	FSR Trucking Inc	West, FL	213 FTE
NAT-SIZE	California Dinner Entertainment, LLC.	Buena Park, CA	213 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ryan Fireprotection, Indianapolis	Noblesville, IN	213 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, 2017. 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.