Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Blair)

Blair, WI · ~95 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Blair) runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Blair): 3.9 TCR = 118% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Blair) safety composite

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Blair) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Blair): 3.1 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2018

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Blair)'s TCR rose 1.3 from 3.1 in 2016 to 4.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Blair, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 118% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #51/171
  • PHOTO Great Lakes Cheese o…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Great Lakes Cheese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Associated Milk Producers Inc (Blair) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Associated Milk Producers Inc (Blair) averages 3.9 TCR (118% 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

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Blair) TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Associated Milk Producers Inc (Blair) falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 63% 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 #51 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Blair) (95 employees, TCR 3.9) 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 Associated Milk Producers Inc (Blair)
Associated Milk Producers Inc (Blair) (95 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Blair) has fewer 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
2018 4.4 4.4 4 0 0
2017 4.3 3.2 3 1 0
2016 3.1 2.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Blair

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 3 employers in Blair, 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 Great Lakes Cheese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hilbert 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kiel 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foremost Farms USA (Lancaster, WI) 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cottage Grove 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE CCC - Appleton WI 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kraemer North America - WI All Others 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terra Corporate 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grand View Care Center, Inc. 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blair 86 FTE
NAT-TCR Cloverleaf Cold Storage-Chesapeake 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Metro Cruise Bayonne 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Frontier Metal Stamping 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilbert Plastic Services-HNC 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Caraustar Mill 2 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE BPI Technology, Inc. - Corporate Office 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ksi Trading Corp - 11hq 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brian Center Health and Rehabilitation/Charlotte 95 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.